Questions tagged [assembly]
An assembly language is a low-level programming language for a computer, microcontroller, or other programmable device, in which each statement corresponds to a single machine code instruction.
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What is beyond ordinary c++, when trying to optimize a function?
Backstory: Writing a QImage to Sixel renderer. Feel like I have optimized it the best I can using basic c++. I have heard suggestions here or there that you can utilize things like GPU, SIMD, insert ...
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How To Share Code Between Assembly Files In A Modular Way
Recently, I started learning Arm64 assembly. The assembler I'm using is the GNU Assembler (GAS). The version of GAS I'm using is GNU assembler (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.42. I want to make my code ...
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Debugging miscompile [closed]
Recently I encountered an issue at work where a unit test written in C++ would crash only when being compiled with MSVC 2017 (MSVC 2019 and up are fine). I tried to debug this issue and it seems like ...
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When making a compiler, what's the best way for compiling to machine code in the backend? [closed]
I know that a lot of compilers use an assembler to compile to machine code, to make an executable (compiled program). Some people even made their own assemblers, or they just use an existing assembler,...
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Where to put files (interfaces) that link two independent assemblies: Authentication and Main Program
I'm having an issue with dependencies in a C# app that I'm creating. I have an assembly for my authentication process, and a separate assembly for starting up the main program once authentication is ...
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Is an assembly program a procedure itself and does it occupy a stack frame?
If I am correct, an assembly language uses the program stack to store data. Is it correct that the program stack is partitioned to frames, each of which is for a call to a procedure? So there is no ...
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Do differences between ATT and Intel formats of assembly languages come from differences between their underlying machine languages?
From Computer Systems: a Programmer's Perspective, about assembly languages: We see that the Intel and ATT formats differ in the following ways: The Intel code omits the size designation suffixes. We ...
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Why will it take approximately 2 years for Apple to transition Mac to ARM? [closed]
Why will it take that long to transition all Mac software to ARM according to Apple? I thought all they would need to do is to recompile the source code of their apps and rewrite SIMD code from intel ...
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