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procedure init; assembler;
asm
mov ax,13h
int 10h
end;
In a string literal?!?! We did better almost 40 years ago..., this is assembly in turbo pascal: procedure init; assembler; asm mov ax,13h int 10h end; You can even have only the asm block in a regular pascal function and make use of regular arguments in the asm block.
Odd bit of news reporting on something that was part of a standard published in 1997. What's next, breaking news on a standard 7-bit code used by Americans for information interchange?
In a string literal?!?! We did better almost 40 years ago..., this is assembly in turbo pascal: procedure init; assembler; asm mov ax,13h int 10h end; You can even have only the asm block in a regular pascal function and make use of regular arguments in the asm block.
PC compilers always followed that path.
The same in Turbo C would be:
void init()
{
asm {
mov ax, 0x13
int 0x10
}
}Old, well-known feature of one of the most popular languages. I must be missing something, because I have no idea how this became a hacker "news" :)
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In a string literal?!?! We did better almost 40 years ago..., this is assembly in turbo pascal: procedure init; assembler; asm mov ax,13h int 10h end; You can even have only the asm block in a regular pascal function and make use of regular arguments in the asm block.
For some cultural reason C and C++ compilers for UNIX do it the hard way. PC compilers always followed that path. The same in Turbo C would be: void init() { asm { mov ax, 0x13 int 0x10 } }
Old, well-known feature of one of the most popular languages. I must be missing something, because I have no idea how this became a hacker "news" :)
But thing you are talking about indeed recurs here. The way I typically guess is that new generations of programmers are coming up all the time and may be unfamiliar with some old stuff. Or, maybe even some experienced people who never happened to touch c or c++ [there are more of those as time goes on].
Earlier quoted context omitted.
For some cultural reason C and C++ compilers for UNIX do it the hard way. PC compilers always followed that path. The same in Turbo C would be: void init() { asm { mov ax, 0x13 int 0x10 } }
Also Rust uses strings for asm. It can't be bad.
There's also a Rust version of Dynasm.
In a string literal?!?! We did better almost 40 years ago..., this is assembly in turbo pascal: procedure init; assembler; asm mov ax,13h int 10h end; You can even have only the asm block in a regular pascal function and make use of regular arguments in the asm block.
It gives me nostalgia seeing mode 13 graphics. What's next, mode x? Triangle drawing routines? :)