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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

In small microcontrollers, my company still uses assembly for sections that must run fast. Also, we have a entire code base that’s about 14 years old, written entirely in assembly on a TI microcontroller, that we still maintain and still ship in products.


5 posted on 04/02/2013 1:40:25 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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I still use asm in my interrupt code.
You can squeeze a lot out of even an 8 bit AVR if you code in asm. There is little time to fool around in an interrupt that runs many thousands of times a second..asm is a must for that.

GCC for everything else.


6 posted on 04/02/2013 1:48:45 PM PDT by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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