Assembly or ....

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1031 at l.cc.purdue.edu> cik at l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>... on the various machines I know, there are operations
>I want to use about which the compiler knows nothing.

There are many of us who don't feel obligated to make use of every
little whiz-bang feature that hardware designers have so thoughtfully
provided.  Life is too short to spend it in an effort to accommodate
hardware quirks.