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CPU simulators suck.
Point in case is that the academia "doctrine" of using software like
SPIM sucks. (SPIM is an X11 program simulating a MIPS R3000 CPU or
so, intended to help teaching assembler.) These programs are far from
the reality of assembler programming.
The purpose of the two assembler files in this directory is to
showcase that writing assembler for a contemporary architecture is
not mutually exclusive to having terse code.
The code in question is written for GNU As in IA-32 ASM targeting a
libc with cdecl calling convention. The choice for IA-32 code is an
obvious one, given that the most prominent CPU architectures to
support running this at the time of writing are IA-32 and AMD64, of
which practically everybody has one. (And if not, there are system
emulators like dosbox/bochs/qemu around. This is far superior to
programs just simulating a lone useless CPU; they emulate an _entire
machine_, complete with things you can and should take for granted,
such as a display.)
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