The point of test %eax %eax [duplicate]
This question already has answers here: Closed 9 years ago. Possible Duplicate: x86 Assembly – ‘testl’ eax against eax? I’m very very new … Read more
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What is the difference between Trap and Interrupt?
What is the difference between Trap and Interrupt? If the terminology is different for different systems, then what do they mean on x86? … Read more
What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory?
I am wondering how much of Ulrich Drepper’s What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory from 2007 is still valid. Also I could … Read more
How does the ARM architecture differ from x86? [closed]
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What is exactly the base pointer and stack pointer? To what do they point?
Using this example coming from wikipedia, in which DrawSquare() calls DrawLine(), (Note that this diagram has high addresses at the bottom and low … Read more
What is a retpoline and how does it work?
In order to mitigate against kernel or cross-process memory disclosure (the Spectre attack), the Linux kernel1 will be compiled with a new option, … Read more
What does multicore assembly language look like?
Once upon a time, to write x86 assembler, for example, you would have instructions stating “load the EDX register with the value 5”, … Read more
How to run a program without an operating system?
How do you run a program all by itself without an operating system running? Can you create assembly programs that the computer can … Read more
How to compile Tensorflow with SSE4.2 and AVX instructions?
This is the message received from running a script to check if Tensorflow is working: I tensorflow/stream_executor/dso_loader.cc:125] successfully opened CUDA library libcublas.so.8.0 locally … Read more
Deoptimizing a program for the pipeline in Intel Sandybridge-family CPUs
I’ve been racking my brain for a week trying to complete this assignment and I’m hoping someone here can lead me toward the … Read more