Hello, my name is Vladimir Keleshev and I am a software developer living and working just outside of Copenhagen. In the past, I have worked with embedded systems, safety-critical systems, compilers, and now in finance. Recently, I have published a book called…
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Usually, x86 tutorials don’t spend much time explaining the historical perspective of design and naming decisions. When learning x86 assembly, you’re usually told something along the lines: Here’s EAX . It’s a register. Use it.
LDM—or load multiple —is my favorite assembly instruction of the ARM instruction set. Here’s why.
Then come along! Let’s make a compiler that goes all the way from source to assembly from scratch—no shortcuts!