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Re:A gentle intro to assembly with Rust by SilasX on Monday August 03, 2020 @08:46PM (#24045288)
Any reason not to just do some other “increment stack pointer” option?
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Re:A gentle intro to assembly with Rust by glandium on Monday August 03, 2020 @09:26PM (#24045545)
The instruction is smaller. Push rax is encoded into 1 bytes, while an increment stack pointer would be 4.
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