Top "Machine-code" questions

Machine code is data that is directly fed into a microprocessor, being the only form that the processor is able to execute.

How does the CPU know its instruction set?

Basic computer operation question but I'm not sure how to ask it. When we say that a computer has an …

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Most portable library for dynamic code generation?

I'm looking for the most portable assembler library, like asmjit or jitasm. When I say 'most portable' I mean, that …

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How does less than and greater than work on a logical level in binary?

I see how equality could work by just comparing bit patterns, but how would one write one's own less than …

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