alt Hacker NewsNot sure what to take away from this. __abstract works because GCC allows it as an alias to __abstract__, not because parsing the syntax is forgiving.
Abstractions do exist (disagreeing with the single other post in here) and they also exist in most flavours of assembly, because assembly itself is still an abstraction for machine code. A very thin one, sure, but assemblers will generally provide a fair amount of syntactic sugar on top, if you want to make use of it.
Protip: your functions should be padded with instructions that'll trap if you miss a return.
>Protip: your functions should be padded with instructions that'll trap if you miss a return.
Galaxy brained protip: instead of a trap, use return instructions as padding, that way it will just work correctly!
Some compilers insert trap instructions when aligning the start of functions, mainly because the empty space has to be filled with something, and it's better to use a trapping instruction if for some reason this unreachable code is ever jumped to. But if you have to do it manually, it doesn't really help, since it's easier to forget than the return.