nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq0jkeeqdl7q22gw8ax79e4r84e6smhz2wk3ew80ph06nljukle83ql7euty (nprofile…euty) Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (nprofile…8m52) There's no reason for a C compiler to not compile straight to machine code. Popular ones doing so is an implementation detail and a bit of unix heritage - now you have to define the instruction set in multiple places *and* a language to interface with the assembler.
I do agree it helps with debugging and make implementing asm() statements trivial, but I've seen commercial C compilers skip the assembler before (providing a disassembler for debugging instead).