[sdiy] Quick C query

[Jason Proctor]

>Which gets me back to knowing what the compiler does with code. 
>Output to a listing file and look can get you a very long way before 
>having to goto assembly.

seconded. i wrote gobs of C before i did any assembler, hence i 
learned a lot by having the compiler compile, but not assemble or 
link. studying the assembler output can be very enlightening indeed, 
especially while varying the optimisation settings.