Quote:Original post by summaky
Actually, boost does use a bit of assembly.
Wow, I didn't notice that before.
It didn't bite me, however, since the Win/MSVC implementations are all pure C++ and could be compiled to x64 without any trouble ;)
-Markus-
Including assembly
Wow, I didn't notice that before.
It didn't bite me, however, since the Win/MSVC implementations are all pure C++ and could be compiled to x64 without any trouble ;)
-Markus-
Quote:Original post by SnotBobQuote:Original post by nb
that's simply wrong. assembler/assembly has nothing to do with inital booting.
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Assembly/Assembler = binary instructions translated into pneumonics that make half-sense in english.
I think that makes sense.
You think that do you? Pneumonics indeed. [grin]
Seriously though, he was right about setup code. Most higher level languages, including C, require some backing data structures and routines that simply cannot be implemented in those languages themselves, because they haven't been set up yet at that point.
it's a new day and a re-read = new interpretation. I was taking it more that Assembler for booting was considered some magical beast before the normality begins with whatever os, as opposed to simply being a language.
did that make sense :P
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