awhitworth

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   by awhitworth 12y ago

   The title of the book is "X86 Disassembly". It was only ever intended to cover x86. x86_64, mips, ppc, etc are all expressly out of scope.
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   by awhitworth 12y ago

   I don't know exactly why, but I have some theories. First, the two instructions you list there aren't parallelizable, because you have a write to ESP and then a read from it, so the first instruction needs to complete first (or, g
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   by awhitworth 12y ago

   It's funny to see this link come up on HN, because I wrote this book (or much of it) years ago as a college student. I was taking some courses on microprocessor architectures and assembly code, and was in the middle of reading Reversin