From: Dave Bird <dave AT xemu DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Help needed to learn ASM
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 03:25:00 +0000
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In article <36e2e0cd DOT 23664102 AT 158 DOT 152 DOT 254 DOT 68>, Kevin
<krugman AT nospam DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> writes
>>What are the pro's and con's of using inline ASM over something like
>>NASM?
>I havn't a clue, I'm a complete newbie at inline assembler.

 This depends on whether you are trying to keep your project nicely
 organised within a single file, or whether you prefer it dispersed
 across many files with the consequent overhead of "exporting" stuff
 from the one file that defines it to the many files that refer it. 

 You do avoid a lot of overhead and circumlocution for linking
 references between the two; and it makes life so much easier if
 what you have is small amounts of assem that fit integrally
 into the rest of the main file.

 The functionality coded for is exactly the same, of course.


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