What assembler abstractions are better than C?

Question

I once hear C described as an &ldquo;assembly language abstraction&rdquo;.Along the years, the computing industry came up with many elegant languages but among them, what other attempts to &ldquo;abstracting assembler&rdquo; are out there?

johndoe0815 · Accepted Answer

Plan 9 and Inferno (and, based on their compiler toolchain, also Golang) use a form of an abstract assembler/intermediate representation which delegates actual code generation and optimization to the linker.More information on this can be found at https://9p.io/sys/doc/asm.html (for Plan 9 and Inferno) and https://go.dev/doc/asm (for Go).

wruza · Answer

What dou you mean by better than C? A different paradigm or a better implementation? In which regard?Lisp/scheme are different paradigms, but are they even &ldquo;abstractions over assembly&rdquo;? D is closer to C, but does it really abstract from assembly in a better way, or in just the same? FASM is heavy macroed self-building assembler, but is it an abstraction or just a codegen toolkit? The question seems like too broad.

PaulHoule · Answer

In assembly language you can bypass C's calling convention and stop, for instance, moving the stack pointer around every time you call a subroutine.