Totally agree. It's also handy for seeing how instructions should be if you compile a big enough chunk of source code.So its easy to try a simple program on both. The C compiler is handy because you can see how things are done.
I don't know about Assembler defaults but my GCC on Bookworm appears to default to 'armv6' which I thought was 32-bit only -Having said that, on the latest Raspberry Pi OS (bookworm) you will find the assembler defaults to ARM64 and the compiler will emit ARM64 by default (you see what I mean, in this context, ARM32 is obsolete).
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pi@Pi4B:/tmp $ cat x.cint main(void) {}pi@Pi4B:/tmp $ gcc --versiongcc (Raspbian 12.2.0-14+rpi1) 12.2.0pi@Pi4B:/tmp $ gcc -S x.cpi@Pi4B:/tmp $ cat x.s .arch armv6 .fpu vfp .eabi_attribute 28, 1 ...Statistics: Posted by hippy — Sat Apr 27, 2024 11:27 pm