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		tsahyt on Sept 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Understanding C by learning assembly gcc -S is usually preferable, since you don't get all the code produced/included by the linker to get the thing running.

dbaupp on Sept 13, 2012 [–]

And using gcc -S allows you to get a few extra annotations (variable names etc.) using the -fverbose-asm flag.

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