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No artigo de hoje vou apresentar a você 15 dicas muito boas da linguagem

   Atenção: nem todas dicas, especialmente os atalhos de código, v&at

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Alfred Marku
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asked 21 October, 2021
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What is the function of the push / pop instructions used on registers in x86 assembly?

When reading about assembler I often come across people writing that they push a certain register of the proce

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Kisha
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asked 07 September, 2021
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`testl` eax against eax?

I am trying to understand some assembly. The assembly as follows, I am interested in the testl line: 000319d

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Winford
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asked 07 September, 2021
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What are CFI directives in Gnu Assembler (GAS) used for?

There seem to be a .CFI directive after every line and also there are wide varities of these ex.,.cfi_startpro

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Royal
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asked 07 September, 2021
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Quickly find whether a value is present in a C array?

I have an embedded application with a time-critical ISR that needs to iterate through an array of size 256 (pr

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Sydney
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asked 07 September, 2021
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Possible GCC bug when returning struct from a function

I believe I found a bug in GCC while implementing O'Neill's PCG PRNG. (Initial code on Godbolt'

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Vi
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asked 07 September, 2021
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What does `dword ptr` mean?

Could someone explain what this means? (Intel Syntax, x86, Windows) and dword ptr [ebp-4], 0

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Kisha
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asked 07 September, 2021
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What is the best way to set a register to zero in x86 assembly: xor, mov or and?

All the following instructions do the same thing: set %eax to zero. Which way is optimal (requiring fewest mac

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User demo
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asked 07 September, 2021
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How does this milw0rm heap spraying exploit work?

I usually do not have difficulty to read JavaScript code but for this one I can’t figure out the logic. The

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Robyn
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asked 07 September, 2021
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Why do x86-64 instructions on 32-bit registers zero the upper part of the full 64-bit register?

In the x86-64 Tour of Intel Manuals, I read Perhaps the most surprising fact is that an instruction such a

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Frederick
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asked 07 September, 2021
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Why do ARM chips have an instruction with Javascript in the name (FJCVTZS)?

FJCVTZS is "Floating-point Javascript Convert to Signed fixed-point, rounding toward Zero". It is supported i

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Majorie
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asked 07 September, 2021
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What is the difference between MOV and LEA?

I would like to know what the difference between these instructions is: MOV AX, [TABLE-ADDR] and LEA AX,

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Juliane
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asked 07 September, 2021
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Can num++ be atomic for 'int num'?

In general, for int num, num++ (or ++num), as a read-modify-write operation, is not atomic. But I often see co

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Forrest
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asked 07 September, 2021
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Why does GCC generate such radically different assembly for nearly the same C code?

While writing an optimized ftol function I found some very odd behaviour in GCC 4.6.1. Let me show you the cod

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Eddie
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asked 07 September, 2021
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Is inline assembly language slower than native C++ code?

I tried to compare the performance of inline assembly language and C++ code, so I wrote a function that add tw

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Rudolf
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asked 07 September, 2021
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Why would introducing useless MOV instructions speed up a tight loop in x86_64 assembly?

Background: While optimizing some Pascal code with embedded assembly language, I noticed an unnecessary MOV i

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Jesenia
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asked 07 September, 2021
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Why does GCC use multiplication by a strange number in implementing integer division?

I've been reading about div and mul assembly operations, and I decided to see them in action by writing a

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Xavier
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asked 07 September, 2021