What is exactly the base pointer and stack pointer? To what do they point?

What is exactly the base pointer and stack pointer? To what do they point?

c assembly x86 stack-frame stack-pointer

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Why does GCC generate such radically different assembly for nearly the same C code?

c gcc assembly x86 compiler-optimization

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Why does integer overflow on x86 with GCC cause an infinite loop?

c++ c gcc x86 undefined-behavior

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Double cast to unsigned int on Win32 is truncating to 2,147,483,648

c visual-c++ casting x86 floating-point

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Is it possible to tell the branch predictor how likely it is to follow the branch?

c gcc x86 compiler-optimization micro-optimization

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Fast method to copy memory with translation - ARGB to BGR

c x86 rgb sse micro-optimization

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Efficient integer compare function

c assembly x86 inline-assembly

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Why GCC compiled C program needs .eh_frame section?

c assembly exception-handling x86 elf

c

What does it mean to align the stack?

c assembly gcc x86 memory-alignment

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Specifying multiple files with LD_PRELOAD

c linux dynamic x86

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Why is gcc allowed to speculatively load from a struct?

c gcc assembly x86 compiler-optimization

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GCC's assembly output of an empty program on x86, win32

c gcc x86 gnu-assembler tdm-mingw

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Fastest way to calculate a 128-bit integer modulo a 64-bit integer

c algorithm x86 modulo assembly

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Does integer overflow cause undefined behavior because of memory corruption?

c++ c x86 undefined-behavior integer-overflow

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Boolean values as 8 bit in compilers. Are operations on them inefficient?

c++ c optimization x86 boolean

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