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Re:Significant Raise of Reports by sharifhsn on Thursday April 02, 2026 @09:55AM (#47614543)
For the purposes of debugging, assembly is machine code, just with some nice constructs to make it easier to read. Transpiling between assembly and machine code is mostly a find-and-replace exercise, not like the advanced reasoning involved in proper compilation.
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Re:Significant Raise of Reports by IsTom on Thursday April 02, 2026 @10:58AM (#47615383)
On x86/x64/variable instruction length architectures this isn't always the case. You can jump in middle of an instruction to get a different instruction. It can be used to obfuscate code.
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