Em 20/10/2011 08:34, Wouter van Ooijen escreveu:
>> Err, yes, but you do need to appreciate the underlying architecture of t=
he chip,
> Why would you *need* to appreciate it? I don't think many PC users=20
> appreciate the finer details (or any details at all) of the x86 or x386=20
> architecture (much less the horribly complex yet very successful=20
> siblings that we use today).
>
> I am now doing some work on a Cortex chip in C++. I am very familiar=20
> with the ARM architecture and instruction set, but I don't feel any need=
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> to dig into the Cortex instruction set. The authors of the GCC back-end=20
> have done that, so I can go on with my work very effectively without=20
> such knowledge. And later on I might switch to a PIC32, again without=20
> first digging into the instruction set architecture.
>
> I don't say that some knowledge of the asm level can't be beneficial,=20
> but say that you *need* it is ridiculous.


I agree in gender, number and degree.

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