Re:Ask HN: What are some examples of beautiful x86 assembly ...
by zero_one_one on Saturday April 28, 2018 @05:05PM
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I agree - my main point is that an OS is ‘just a program’ as well
I suspect we’re both making a similar point in a roundabout way - the operating system is both another layer of abstraction on top of the Instruction Set, while also making the programming process for that chipset somewhat easier (providing software interrupts etc. at the expense of bare metal understanding).
My argument is loosely that modern (x64) assembly is not so much targeting hardware as it is programming into a software abstraction (the operating system).
I suspect we’re both making a similar point in a roundabout way - the operating system is both another layer of abstraction on top of the Instruction Set, while also making the programming process for that chipset somewhat easier (providing software interrupts etc. at the expense of bare metal understanding).
My argument is loosely that modern (x64) assembly is not so much targeting hardware as it is programming into a software abstraction (the operating system).