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Old February 23rd 14, 04:37 PM posted to comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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Default How many x86 instructions?

In message , charlie
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At the time, the only out we had in order to meet contract requirements
was to write a combination of assembly code, compiled code, and
horrors,
machine code. If that wasn't bad enough, we then had to "disassemble"
the machine code to see if there was a way to duplicate it at the
highest level possible, without writing compiler extensions.


What's machine code (as opposed to assembly code) in this context? How
did you write it?
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