I'm looking at the following disassembled AArch64 instruction: 65 6E 20 2B adds w5, w19, w0, uxtx #3 According to the ARM manual, uxtx zero-extends w0 to an
How do I create a text file that updates values inputted to by the user using Irvine's library? for example for my data I have: .data frstValue BYTE "Enter f
I want to inspect the assembly output of applying boost::variant in my code in order to see which intermediate calls are optimized away. When I compile the fol
I'm new to C++ programming and have always wanted to write a system information program for MS-DOS. I'm currently using the latest DigiMars C++ compiler and MA
Are x64 registers interchangable, in the sense that any instruction that works with one combination of them will work with any other? Is there performance diffe
I was originally trying to generate the bytes for an immediate move into a 64 bit register.The specific operation I wanted was mov rdi, 0x1337 Using https://ww
Going through the shellcode article on wikipedia, it gives an example as follows: B8 01000000 MOV EAX,1 // Set the register EAX to 0x000000001 To
When I try to build my source into a 32-bit static executable for Linux with nasm -f elf -F dwarf -g loop.asm ld -m elf_i386 -o loop loop.o I get this R_386_
In the case that a load overlaps two earlier stores (and the load is not fully contained in the oldest store), can modern Intel or AMD x86 implementations forwa
After reading this post (answer on StackOverflow) (at the optimization section), I was wondering why conditional moves are not vulnerable for Branch Prediction
I'm doing micro-optimization on a performance critical part of my code and came across the sequence of instructions (in AT&T syntax): add %rax, %rbx mov %r
At this point i have been learning assembly for about 6 months. My current project is a random number generator. I need to generate 1 random n
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I'm looking at some practice code for assembly, and the assignment is basically to replace one jump point with another. The original jmp is a SHORT jmp, and th
I keep seeing people claim that the MOV instruction can be free in x86, because of register renaming. For the life of me, I can't verify this in a single tes
I actually want to print the content of the dx register with nasm. Thereby the content is a 16 bit hex digit such as 0x12AB. Therefore I've first implemented a
I actually want to print the content of the dx register with nasm. Thereby the content is a 16 bit hex digit such as 0x12AB. Therefore I've first implemented a
I have to add two 3*3 arrays of words and store the result in another array. Here is my code: .data a1 WORD 1,2,3 WORD 4,2,3 WORD 1,4,3 a2 WORD 4, 3, 8
I'm really confused on the difference between bubbles, stalls, and repeated decoding/fetching. My text is the Patterson text, 3rd edition. Example 1: add $3,
I have found something unexpected (to me) using the Intel® Architecture Code Analyzer (IACA). The following instruction using [base+index] addressing add