Assembly

Today one of my friend asked me to interpret below assembly instruction for him, so this post 🙂 The instruction  have below format, [terminal] mov -0x17( ,%ebx,4) [/terminal] It is one of indirect addressing modes, so this should be read in such a way that, [terminal] ( ebx * 4 ) – 0x17 [/terminal] What …

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[These notes are taken from my study  on this topic @post date, things may or may not have changed.. Refer latest kernel source code and manuals if you really care ( Or if you think I have a misunderstanding on this topic 🙂 )about it…] Here, I will explain some bits about segmentation and paging. …

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