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Can we reliably use unaligned scalars on contemporary hardware?
Processors have come a long way in their handling of unaligned data - from crashing at the very notion of it, through suffering severe penalties, all the way to having almost no impact.
I suppose it ...
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Archival-quality future-proof pseudo-CPU architecture
Suppose we maintain a massive electronic library of texts/photos/videos etc., and want to ensure that these files are readable indefinitely long in the future. [Update] one of the major problems with ...
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How do binary numbers interact with the CPU and cause some action to take place? [duplicate]
EDIT: Perhaps what I am misunderstanding is that when it is said that the code we type gets turned into machine code of 0s and 1s. If these 0s and 1s are the abstracted representation of their ...
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Why do compilers typically only generate executables for the platform they are installed on?
I'm a C++ developer and in an attempt to better understand cross-platform development, I'm trying to get a better understanding of some implementation details of compilers and how exactly they create ...
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How can an interpreter produce output of some code, without having the computing components like ALU of a processor?
I have gone through lot of explanations about a compiler and interpreter. I think I understood the difference between compiler and interpreter clearly. I'll explain my learning through the following ...
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Developing a compiler for a self made CPU Architecture
Recently ive been consumed by creating my own simple CPU architecture that at some point could be easily implemented in hardware (No FPGA, but actual Logic Gate circuits). Naturally to fulfill this ...
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Do compilers have to be written for each model of CPU?
Do you need to take account of the different processors and their instructions when writing a compiler? Have instructions been standardised? Or what tools and techniques are available to assist with ...
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