Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> Assembly gives you total control, if that's what you want.
> >
> >    And how do you specify a 64-bit unsigned integer in assembly, exactly?
> > (Remember: You complained how C integral types are system-dependent.)

> In assembly, you don't even "specify" how big a given data item is. This 
> is an implicit property of what instructions you use on that data. 
> Assembly isn't even high-level enough to pretend that it has data types. 
> It just supports what the hardware supports.

  Hence you are contradicting yourself. You *don't* have "total control"
if you can't even specify the size of your integrals.

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