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		gpderetta on Nov 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cooperative Threading but why is it not simply using a separate asm file instead of embedding the preassembled binary as a constant?

near on Nov 13, 2019 [–]

Because for many years libco has supported all C89 compilers. I didn't want a dependency on GNU as on Windows, nor did I want to write an MSVC variant. There is no technical reason it cannot be inline now, especially now that we have Clang with a compatible asm syntax.

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