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From: T.M. Sommers on 16 Nov 2006 04:42 ¬a\/b wrote: > On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:39:46 -0500, T.M. Sommers wrote: >>¬a\/b wrote: >>>On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:30:05 +0100, ¬a\/b wrote: >>>>On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:03:40 +0100, ¬a\/b wrote: >>>> >>>>>>>i tried C language, but many functions are easier in pure assembly not >>>>>>>in C; sscanf, printf, numerical conversion routines, many numerical >>>>>>>functions etc are some of them >>>>>> >>>>>>That's just silly. Things like printf are trivial to use in C, >>>>>>and just as trivial to call from assembler. On the other hand, >>>>>>implementing them in assembler is definitely non-trivial. >>>>> >>>>>what i say is to write down printf function from read/write of the OS >>>> >>>>what i say is to write down sprintf, printf, sscanf etc function all >>>>in assembly is for me esier than write them with C language >>> >>>but my printf has someting less than that "standard C" >> >>If it really is so much easier to do in assembler than in C, why >>haven't you fully implemented printf? > > because that function will be too big and i can find some way for > substitute them something like "%li %lu %hu %hi" > l for long > h for short > (i have a "long int" == "int" and when i have a short it seems that > compiler have to pass it like a "int &0xFFFF" so %i should be ok) In other words, you find the assembler version easier because it doesn't do the whole job. A C version that did less would be smaller and easier, too. -- Thomas M. Sommers -- tms(a)nj.net -- AB2SB |