[wellylug]The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills

[Bruce Hoult]

On 7/12/07, Cliff Pratt <enkidu at cliffp.com> wrote:
> Phillip Hutchings wrote:
> > Cross compiling or not, at some point you _WILL_ have to touch the raw
> > metal, otherwise how does the compiler know that 1 + 2 needs to
> > output:
> > li    r3,1
> > li    r4,2
> > add    r5,r4,r3
> >
> > to get 3 in r5 when no compiler is available? You can't write that in C.
> >
> You absolutely can! Tell me what the machine code is for that snippet on
> the target machine and I can code that as a variable!

Cliff, my good buddy, in order to do that someone has to know how to
program in machine code on that machine.  Which is exactly what I've
been arguing all along.

Nice of you to finally agree.