On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 8:52:31 AM UTC+8, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 03/03/2014 22:19, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > > On 03Mar2014 09:17, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> Wrote in message: > > >>> > > >> > > >> Imo the lesson here is never write in low level c. Use modern > > >> languages with well designed exception handling. > > > > > > What, and rely on someone else's low level C? > > > > > > > Why is C the lowest denominator? > > > > Even with correctly written C and assembly, how can you be sure that > > your processor is executing the SYSRET instruction safely? > > (CVE-2012-0217 for anyone interested) > > > > ~Andrew
It is not difficult to write C with mixed assembly codes for different CPUs. #ifdef ASM /* asm follows */ .... #ifdef CPUTYPES /* insert CPU ASMS for different CPUs carefully here */ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
