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Sometimes, functions need to dump their register parameters on the stack, and the space for that i…
Yeah I thought about this some more. Keeping the magnitude of the inner product constant is useful…
In the "Calling convention defaults" section: The caller must always allocate sufficient space to …
Shadow store is explained in here: The caller must always allocate sufficient space to store four…
What is a shadow store? Is it for return values that are greater than 64 bits so the callee can wr…
volatile registers are listed here: Integer arguments are passed in registers RCX, RDX, R8, and R9…
I've done a bit more experimenting on how to synchronize the two threads together in a way that wo…
volatile / non-volatile registers are concept of calling convention specified in ABI. It is simply…
volatile / non-volatile registers are concept of calling convention specified in ABI. It is simply…
To keep the dot product at zero and the converted normal perpendicular to the transformed vector, …
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I think I get it now. I have some remaining questions:Does th…
Callee does not know and does not care which registers caller uses. Caller itself knows which regi…
It will copy only those non-volatile registers which it wants to use after function. If caller doe…
So a function will copy all the non-volatile register content to the stack at the beginning and re…
So a function will copy all the non-volatile register content to the stack at the beginning and re…
Dawoodoz —
Volatile/non-volatile is explained in the calling convention: "Consider volatile registers destro…
I'm currently learning about calling conventions on windows, both x64 and x86. As far as I know, c…
The Windows API docs state that, by default, an edit control shows and hides the selection highlig…
Hey so I also found an algebraic argument for the way the normals transform. Do you have something…
This ones better
Hello. It's been awhile since I've posted here, but I've just encountered an issue I'd be grateful…
That looks a lot longer evaluation than this:
There was a lot of thinking to figure out why doing the elimination converted the Identity to the …
Lachlan —
Thank you so much Mārtiņš. Strange, why this was not segfaulting. BTW Mārtiņš do you have a …
In server.c this line: file_cursor += byte_counter; should actually be this:
Lachlan —
I'm trying to copy a files using TCP. I only intend for this to be over localhost (so MTU is 65536…
That article is really nice, I can recognize some of the function names from the codebase of react…
Seems that dlclose never actually unloads the library image from the address space and just reuses…
So, then if there is only one OS thread that will be executing N fibers, then how does it make sen…
Having such global variable should not change how rest of code works. It should work. You are expe…