Several times recently the problem of high level languages has been touched and we all know they are "the worse choice" when it comes to '51. They put unnecessary overhead where things could be done really simply and do many things we don't need nor want. The only -major- profit is that they do all the "housekeeping" like multiplying 2 16-bit numbers, performing float maths, managing the serial communication and many such "standard" tasks that are just a pain in the neck to write, not difficult but plain boring in assembly, prone to stupid bugs, sometimes lengthy, etc etc. Writing 16bit division may be fun the first time you do it, but if you start it for the 6th time and already look in your old code to just c&p the routine... bleah.

Now it all would be easier if there was some kind of ASM library with all that boring, long standard routines easy and quick to include and use, so you still can keep the efficiency of assembler in all the most basic or tricky stuff, with most useful tools of higher level languages to do all the boring standards.

Is there such a thing? (and if not, maybe it would be neat to create it?) Maybe one could extract some such stuff from "standard C library" i.e. from SDCC? Something similar to John Wren's "VARIOUS UTILITY FUNCTIONS" only bigger...?