Showing results for August 2022 - The Old New Thing

Pretty much a 64-bit-ification of the i386.

Aligning with the x86-64 calling convention.

Putting theory into practice.

Learning to recognize various code generation patterns.

Taking shortcuts, or maybe adding steps.

Implementing the ABI.

How parameters are passed.

Sweeping up the crumbs.

Making it even harder to smash the return address.

Trying to twiddle the knobs directly.