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> The author and most software devs are so far removed from metal The author writes emulators of multiple game systems in C++. They probably wake up screaming
by justin66 7y ago
> The author and most software devs are so far removed from metal
The author writes emulators of multiple game systems in C++. They probably wake up screaming at night thinking about the metal.
- SlowRobotAhead 7y agoHa, good point. Doesn't stop them from using the term I've noticed.
- byuu 7y ago> as modifying the CPU context registers and stack frame directly is not permitted by most sane programming languages My point was, if C++ had a global variable named "stack_pointer" you could assign to, that would indeed be rather insane.