Recent posts tagged assembly

Yo everyone, this is my first post and I wanna talk about assembly. So back in 1962, the US launched Mariner 1 to Venus. A few mins after liftoff, the rocket started going off course, so they had to blow it up. Turns out it was a code bug: in an as...

What happens to a register when you call a function? On AArch64, the answer isn't "the CPU saves it." When you call a function, the CPU doesn't look at a register table and decide what to preserve. BL doesn't know about caller-saved or callee-saved ...

From Systems Engineering to ForgeZero: Alex Voste on Performance, Build Systems, Assembly and the Fight Against Overhead > Developer Stories | CoderLegion Meet Alex Voste, a Canada-based systems-focused developer working across C, Go, x8664 Assemb...