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Interesting blog posts (it and the preceding one). It seems that reliably emulating the x86 architecture is made even harder by a few features not found in othe
by cesarb 12y ago
Interesting blog posts (it and the preceding one). It seems that reliably emulating the x86 architecture is made even harder by a few features not found in other popular architectures, like an extra level of indirection on memory access (segment registers and the corresponding segment overrides) and most instructions having a memory-accessing variant (instead of limiting memory access to separate "load" and "store" instructions, plus a few specialized atomic RMW instructions).