Assembler vs C

[va...@burdvax.uucp]

I am trying to determine the percentage of users (in the following
three environments) who actually use assembler to some degree:

1. UNIX systems programmers
2. UNIX applications programmers
3. students and faculty in a university UNIX environment

The question is whether or not C is a viable alternative to using assembler.
It seems that the SysV manuals are trying to dissuade UNIX programmers from
using assembler. Is this true?

[r...@cornell.uucp]

C can replace assembler. The only use for assembler on VAXen is to
write the context switching routines and to improve the speed of a
few commonly used subroutines. People that I know programming in C
on a 68000 never seem to use assembler. The Cornell Program Synthesiser
is written in C and runs on many PDP-11s across campus. Its device
drivers and overlay routines are written in C, with only the process
switching routines being in assembler.

Ralph Johnson cornell!rej

[la...@sdcsvax.uucp]

Also used in the C library for the system interface routines, but that's
not the kernel...

Nooooo.... Not ANOTHER set of interface routines.....

Mike Laman
UUCP: {ucbvax,philabs,sdccsu3,sdcsla}!sdcsvax!laman