On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 10:41:21PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> In 32-bit mode, the x86 architecture can hold full 32-bit pointers.
> Therefore, the code that copies the current address to the %ecx register
> and uses %ecx-relative addressing is useless, we could just use absolute
> addressing.
On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 10:41:21PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> In 32-bit mode, the x86 architecture can hold full 32-bit pointers.
> Therefore, the code that copies the current address to the %ecx register
> and uses %ecx-relative addressing is useless, we could just use absolute
> addressing.
In 32-bit mode, the x86 architecture can hold full 32-bit pointers.
Therefore, the code that copies the current address to the %ecx register
and uses %ecx-relative addressing is useless, we could just use absolute
addressing.
The processors have a stack of return addresses for branch prediction.
In 32-bit mode, the x86 architecture can hold full 32-bit pointers.
Therefore, the code that copies the current address to the %ecx register
and uses %ecx-relative addressing is useless, we could just use absolute
addressing.
The processors have a stack of return addresses for branch prediction.
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