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kazinator
on Dec 3, 2016
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Let’s Stop Bashing C
Support for inline assembly language in C is a compiler extension.
It is not exclusive to C compilers.
taeric
on Dec 3, 2016
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Indeed it isn't. It does seem to be most common there, though. (See sibling post for comments of early lisps supporting this. Well aware of it, but many higher level languages do not commonly support it.)
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It is not exclusive to C compilers.