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Re:Why is strlen so complex in C? by compiler-guy on Monday August 26, 2019 @05:33PM (#20804024)
There was nothing "premature" about C's "high-level assembly" idea. It is somewhat archaic now, but C took off because it was so, so much better than normal assembly.

If handling strings in plain C is hard, handling them in assembly is 10x as hard.

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Re:Why is strlen so complex in C? by saagarjha on Monday August 26, 2019 @05:43PM (#20804089)
repne scasb disagrees with you :)
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Re:Why is strlen so complex in C? by compiler-guy on Monday August 26, 2019 @06:17PM (#20804327)
As would many other assembly instructions on many other architectures.... and thereby proving my point. :-)
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