The Old New Thing

The Itanium processor, part 5: The GP register, calling functions, and function pointers

July 31, 2015 Jul 31, 2015 07/31/15

Raymond Chen

Who am I? How did I get here?

The Itanium processor, part 3b: How does spilling actually work?

July 30, 2015 Jul 30, 2015 07/30/15

Raymond Chen

Working quietly in the background.

The Itanium processor, part 4: The Windows calling convention, leaf functions

July 30, 2015 Jul 30, 2015 07/30/15

Raymond Chen

Just use what you've got.

The Itanium processor, part 3: The Windows calling convention, how parameters are passed

July 29, 2015 Jul 29, 2015 07/29/15

Raymond Chen

Slide on over.

The Itanium processor, part 2: Instruction encoding, templates, and stops

July 28, 2015 Jul 28, 2015 07/28/15

Raymond Chen

Stop and go.

The Itanium processor, part 1: Warming up

July 27, 2015 Jul 27, 2015 07/27/15

Raymond Chen

All those registers.

Corrupted file causes application to crash; is that a security vulnerability?

July 23, 2015 Jul 23, 2015 07/23/15

Raymond Chen

Maybe, maybe not.