The Old New Thing

The Alpha AXP, part 9: The memory model and atomic memory operations

August 17, 2017 Aug 17, 2017 08/17/17

Raymond Chen

When does it happen? I have no idea!

The Alpha AXP, part 8: Memory access, storing bytes and words and unaligned data

August 16, 2017 Aug 16, 2017 08/16/17

Raymond Chen

Those little pieces.

The Alpha AXP, part 7: Memory access, loading unaligned data

August 15, 2017 Aug 15, 2017 08/15/17

Raymond Chen

Now it gets harder.

The Alpha AXP, part 6: Memory access, basics

August 14, 2017 Aug 14, 2017 08/14/17

Raymond Chen

Start with the easy cases.

The Alpha AXP, part 5: Conditional operations and control flow

August 11, 2017 Aug 11, 2017 08/11/17

Raymond Chen

But there is no flags register.

The Alpha AXP, part 4: Bit 15. Ugh. Bit 15.

August 10, 2017 Aug 10, 2017 08/10/17

Raymond Chen

Let's make some bits.

The Alpha AXP, part 3: Integer constants

August 9, 2017 Aug 9, 2017 08/9/17

Raymond Chen

Building them up a piece at a time.

The Alpha AXP, part 2: Integer calculations

August 8, 2017 Aug 8, 2017 08/8/17

Raymond Chen

It's all fun and games until somebody does sign extension.

The Alpha AXP, part 1: Initial plunge

August 7, 2017 Aug 7, 2017 08/7/17

Raymond Chen

Pretty registers, all in a row.

Wrapping some other scripting language inside a batch file

August 4, 2017 Aug 4, 2017 08/4/17

Raymond Chen

Polyglot to the rescue.