Appendix F. Inline Assembly
In this book, we have shown how to combine modules written in assembly language and high-level languages. Most commonly, high-level language programs will call custom assembly language routines, though we have also demonstrated how a main program in assembly language could call functions written in a high-level language.
Some programming environments define inline assembly as a method to integrate assembly language into a high-level language, typically using a generic function-like construct whose argument is a short sequence of assembly language instructions.
Inline assembly support in Itanium programming languages allows system and application developers to:
gain access to machine resources, such as the psr (the ...
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