Aug 30, 2017
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The Alpha AXP, part 17: Reconstructing a call stack
Putting the information into practice.
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Aug 29, 2017
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The Alpha AXP, part 16: What are the dire consequences of having 32-bit values in non-canonical form?
It depends on what the next calculation is.
Aug 28, 2017
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The Alpha AXP, part 15: Variadic functions
Keeping two sets of books that eventually become one.
Aug 25, 2017
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The Alpha AXP, part 14: On the strange behavior of writes to the zero register
Room for future optimization.
Aug 24, 2017
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Yes, that was a horrifically awkward video, but it wasn’t the Windows 95 launch
Some sort of sales event, probably.
Aug 23, 2017
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The Alpha AXP, part 13: On treating a 64-bit processor as if it were a 32-bit processor
It's all in the point of view.
Aug 22, 2017
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The Alpha AXP: Part 12: How you detect carry on a processor with no carry?
The same way you do it in C, which also doesn't have a carry.
Aug 21, 2017
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The Alpha AXP, part 11: Processor faults
Sometimes you know where it happened. Sometimes you don't.
Aug 18, 2017
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The Alpha AXP, part 10: Atomic updates to byte and word memory units
Putting together some things we've learned.
Aug 17, 2017
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The Alpha AXP, part 9: The memory model and atomic memory operations
When does it happen? I have no idea!