The Old New Thing

Twitter misdetected the 2011 Build conference keynote as a denial-of-service attack

July 27, 2021 Jul 27, 2021 07/27/21

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Just a lot of excited developers.

How did copying and renaming with wildcards work in MS-DOS?

July 13, 2021 Jul 13, 2021 07/13/21

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By lining up two parallel arrays.

The ARM processor (Thumb-2), part 20: Code walkthrough

June 25, 2021 Jun 25, 2021 06/25/21

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Putting together what we've learned, with a surprise.

The ARM processor (Thumb-2), part 19: Common patterns

June 24, 2021 Jun 24, 2021 06/24/21

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Code sequences you will learn to recognize.

The ARM processor (Thumb-2), part 18: Other kinds of prologues and epilogues

June 23, 2021 Jun 23, 2021 06/23/21

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Taking shortcuts and combining steps, or omitting them entirely.

The ARM processor (Thumb-2), part 17: Prologues and epilogues

June 22, 2021 Jun 22, 2021 06/22/21

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Implementing the receiving end of the calling convention.

The ARM processor (Thumb-2), part 16: The calling convention

June 21, 2021 Jun 21, 2021 06/21/21

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Pretend it's on the stack, even if it isn't.

The ARM processor (Thumb-2), part 15: Miscellaneous instructions

June 18, 2021 Jun 18, 2021 06/18/21

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The stuff that didn't fit anywhere else.

The ARM processor (Thumb-2), part 14: Manipulating flags

June 17, 2021 Jun 17, 2021 06/17/21

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Reaching in and flipping the switches.