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Which assembly? Assembly with macros? Assembly with synthetic instructions?

If you use

    mov %i0, %l0
instead of

    or %g0, %i0, %l0
Then that isn't "the lowest level you can target."




I was thinking of x86 when I wrote that, also I am not sure macros count as an abstraction level since they are just preprocessors?

What I meant to say is that since there is no way to directly write microcode, assembly is the lowest level software can target.

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