Re: [tip:x86/seves] BUILD SUCCESS WITH WARNING e6eb15c9ba3165698488ae5c34920eea20eaa38e

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Sep 16 2020 - 14:48:55 EST


On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 11:28:26AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> pt. 3 https://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2014/04/18/lets-write-some-x86-64/

/me adds to the read list.

> ...2014, jesus...
>
> "But you never can tell exactly what the compiler is doing. It doesn’t
> always come out the way you want. Like a dusty pane or warped mirror."

Fun quote that. The rest is also very entertaining...

> Seems I'd learn more about that than I'd could have ever envisioned...

Thank <Deity> there's inline asm. This is also why we don't trust
compilers, not even when using builtins. :-P

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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