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Re:Stack-Oriented Programming by pjc50 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:55AM (#22053224)
> Bare metal ain't dirty.

No, but it's not as solid as it sounds. What happens when version 2 of the hardware appears, and moves the bit to a different register?

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Re:Stack-Oriented Programming by naikrovek on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @10:31AM (#22055046)
> What happens when version 2 of the hardware appears, and moves the bit to a different register?

You adapt your code for that platform. I don't know why developers today have such a love affair with unnecessary abstraction. Abstract when you need to; never before.

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Re:Stack-Oriented Programming by pjmlp on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @06:01AM (#22053247)
The same thing when a new OS release break some API call.
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Re:Stack-Oriented Programming by pjc50 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @06:54AM (#22053466)
.. which they do far less often than hardware changes. You have a reasonable chance of running a 25-year-old Win32 program or 20-year-old statically linked ELF Linux program.
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