Comment by pjmlp
12 hours ago
Yeah, and as you well put it, it isn't even some snowflake feature only possible in C.
The myth that it was a gift from Gods doing stuff nothing else can make it, persists.
And even on the languages that don't, it isn't if as a tiny Assembly thunk is the end of the world to write, but apparently at a sign of a plain mov people run to the hills nowadays.
> And even on the languages that don't, it isn't if as a tiny Assembly thunk is the end of the world to write, but apparently at a sign of a plain mov people run to the hills nowadays.
Use the right tool for the job. I've always felt it's often the most efficient thing to write a bit of code in assembler, if that's simpler and clearer than doing anything else.
It's hard to write obfuscated assembler because it's all sitting opened up in front of you. It's as simple as it gets and it hasn't got any secrets.