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GCC Explorer - an interactive take on compilation

GCC Explorer - an interactive take on compilation

Posted May 24, 2012 18:09 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104)
Parent article: GCC Explorer - an interactive take on compilation

It would be nice to have help for assembly instructions. I used to know them well in the 8086 days, but I have no slightest idea what "ucomisd" means.


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GCC Explorer - an interactive take on compilation

Posted May 25, 2012 10:21 UTC (Fri) by morganr (subscriber, #43385) [Link]

You can download a pdf with descriptions of all of the instructions from http://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/processors/archi...

GCC Explorer - an interactive take on compilation

Posted May 25, 2012 15:11 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

Is there some short instruction description? Preferably in BSD syntax? The cited manuals are just too unwidely...

GCC Explorer - an interactive take on compilation

Posted May 25, 2012 16:53 UTC (Fri) by lindi (subscriber, #53135) [Link]

GCC Explorer - an interactive take on compilation

Posted May 25, 2012 12:54 UTC (Fri) by rich0 (guest, #55509) [Link]

Unordered Compare Scalar Double-Precision Floating-Point Values

If ever we needed proof that x86 was a CISC architecture... :)

GCC Explorer - an interactive take on compilation

Posted Jun 1, 2012 14:35 UTC (Fri) by rriggs (subscriber, #11598) [Link]

It's interesting to consider what a RISC instruction set for a modern x86_64 CPU would look like.

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