It's just that in assembler it's considered acceptable whereas in 'C' it is frowned upon."

Not at all

I disagree, a very large contigent will "kill" you if you propose using global variables in C.

Once as a member of a team at a multiBillion company where I had not been involved with "setting the rules", I neded a global bit to kill a bug. I was told "we do not use globals" and had to pass a pointer to the bit through several levels of subroutining.

Erik