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Rules to avoid common extended inline assembly mistakes
program.com/blog/2024/12/20/ GCC and Clang inline assembly is an interface between high and low level programming languages. It is subtle and treacherous.
Nearly every inline assembly tutorial, including the awful ibilio page at the top of search engines for decades, propagate fundamental, serious mistakes, and most examples are incorrect. Now that you’ve made it this far, here’s an exercise for practice: Search online for “inline assembly tutorial” and count the defects you find by applying my 6 rules. Besides tutorials and reviewing real programs, you could ask an LLM to generate inline assembly, as they’ve been been trained to produce these common defects.
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