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80x86 ASM for ASP.NET

Posted by timothy on from the contrary dept.

Galen Wolffit writes "A chap out in Denmark has brought us an 80386 Assembler for ASP.NET. This interpreter supports about 61 80x86 instructions, though there are a number of limitations. Why? Why not. And when asked about pointers (which are considered evil in .NET), the author simply says 'With 80386 scripting you can still generate memory exceptions and bring the web-server down. It's things like this that make assembler programmers feel powerful.'"

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  1. This stuff has no effect on the web browser by pchasco · · Score: 2, Informative

    For all those paranoid, you can rest easy. The assembly code still runs on the web server, and not your browser. No different than C# or VB.NET code in that respect. If the web server could force your browser to compile and execute this assembly code, then it could very well just force you to compile and run some C# or VB.NET code.