Olivier Galibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 08:57:20AM -0400, Robert Dewar wrote: | > But the whole idea of hardware semantics is bogus, since you are | > assuming some connection between C and the hardware which does not | > exist. C is not an assembly language. | | A non-negligible part of the use of C and even C++ is as a high-level, | somewhat portable assembly language. Ignoring that part is not a very | good idea.
Especially given that we do compile C and C++ programs based on the published processor specific ABIs, and pretending that there is no connection between C or C++ and hardware semantics is, ahem, not a very good idea. -- Gaby
