Computer
Systems

Fall 2010
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Brownie points for both good questions and good answers.

notices

A Cool XKCD for class

http://xkcd.com/676/

32-bit assembler reference sheet

http://www.jegerlehner.ch/intel/

"linux-gate" & assembler

(random thing Isaac found)
http://www.trilithium.com/johan/2005/08/linux-gate/
(the fixed address only work on Linux 32-bit x86 systems, and maybe only older ones because someone was complaining more recently that the linux-gate page was put into a random place in memory [for security ish reasons])
Why: fast syscalls. http://lkml.org/lkml/2002/12/9/13
Linus says he's "a disgusting pig, and proud of it to boot." He made some wacky assembler. http://lkml.org/lkml/2002/12/18/218

storing/loading a single byte

see Isaac Byte Memory Assembler

your question

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