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Re:Rules to avoid common extended inline assembly mistakes by ryandrake on Saturday December 21, 2024 @09:36AM (#42479933)
For the curious, BPF in this case might mean Berkeley Packet Filter[1]. Not sure. Kind of an obscure acronym but Google search seems to have a consensus.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Packet_Filter

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Re:Rules to avoid common extended inline assembly mistakes by wyldfire on Saturday December 21, 2024 @10:00AM (#42480053)
It does. These days, it's probably eBPF and a popular target is the linux kernel [1].

You can write C hooks for tracing and profiling, etc. - with inline asm!

[1] https://docs.kernel.org/bpf/

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