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is assembly language (for the sake of argument, x86 assembly as understood by a… |
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Post #AglH5yjB6mhcmQ9OLo by [email protected] |
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@whitequark Sure, you've got the GPR type and the SSE/AVX/etc type. |
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Post #AglH5ymitbXQxPoDsO by [email protected] |
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@steve right! that's my take on it as well. but I've also seen assembly… |
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@bob why?is the C language typed? why? |
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@whitequark I would argue yes. Different registers/names for different sizes an… |
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@[email protected] not really |
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@julia why?is the C language typed? why? |
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Post #AglHgYXDSKjwG5zraC by [email protected] |
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@whitequark @steve On the most basic level, it’s all bytes and bits. I’d ca… |
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Post #AglHgYcX8YzeWaU6s4 by [email protected] |
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@tsturm @steve on the most basic level Rust is all bytes and bits (types are er… |
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@bob what is an example of a typed language? |
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@whitequark there are types that show up here and there (fpu registers, for ins… |
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@tomoyo but we don't call C untyped even though stdio is untypedin other wo… |
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@whitequark not sure what you mean by as "stdio is untyped"it defines… |
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@tomoyo sorry, by stdio i mean "the data exchanged over fds 0, 1, and 2&qu… |
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@bob if we're talking about the level of individual language features, C ha… |
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Post #AglINtaJ4KmRzn6lwu by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] assembly works on bytes, you can tell it to use a f… |
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@julia how would you use e.g. pshufb on an integer register (say, eax)? |
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@tsturm @whitequark This would be equally true for C though. It's all char … |
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Post #AglIQguqcx0NZb37U8 by [email protected] |
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@steve @tsturm should we be talking about strict aliasing here |
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@[email protected] I don't mean a register when I say integer, I m… |
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@[email protected] for whatever it's worth, I see C as weakly typed |
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@julia are registers the same type as memory? |
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Post #AglIs2j7dvML2Mbhfk by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] not really |
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@julia so, that's at least two different types then? |
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Post #AglIws2ymFu5MXCHdQ by [email protected] |
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@whitequark @steve Yeah, but the *language* (Rust or C) has types. Assembly (at… |
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Post #AglIws7aV7adapLxom by [email protected] |
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@tsturm @steve is assembly not a kind of programming language? (you'll note… |
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Post #AglJ0wNwaePJyWwaIa by [email protected] |
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@whitequark I'd say that whether assembly language is typed has less to do … |
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Post #AglJ0wRqM9WiAclhNQ by [email protected] |
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@sjolsen i've mentioned strict aliasing at least twice in this thread and y… |
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@[email protected] they're not really types? they're just diff… |
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@julia but i'm not talking about hardware (indeed, nothing requires that x8… |
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@whitequark hmm, would you consider "value has to be known at compiletime&… |
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@8051enthusiast this just in: x86 assembly stabilized const generics decades be… |
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Post #AglJJZLOTreG15dMB6 by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] I suppose there are "types" in the abstra… |
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@julia what's a true CPU instruction set? |
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@whitequark :blobcatchristmasglowsticks: I also think one has to be careful to … |
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@sjolsen how do i use an x86 CPU to operate on a bitstring? |
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@whitequark idk, i think a lot of the code either way is dedicated to manipulat… |
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@tomoyo but isn't this the same as what most of your assembly code is doing… |
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@[email protected] whatever instruction set is used by the CPU after i… |
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@julia is that something that exists? if it does, why is it more important than… |
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@[email protected] Most modern CPUs don't actually execute x86 ins… |
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@julia can you show me an example of an instruction in that ISA for any x86 CPU… |
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@[email protected] they're usually proprietary and not very well d… |
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@julia if you can't name a single instruction from it how can you be certai… |
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@whitequark are you asking a functional question or an ontological question? th… |
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@sjolsen I'm actually questioning the word "bitstring", because i… |
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@whitequark sure but in C you're can't just take this random memory loc… |
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@whitequark or if you try to call fprintf() with a pointer to `struct banana`, … |
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@tomoyo if you do the equivalent of it in assembly you get a segfault too |
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Post #AglKaVmD671npTosQy by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] okay, thats just outright conspiratorial- it's … |
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@julia it's not, you're just repeating something you have no evidence o… |
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@julia an ISA is a contract between a producer and a consumer. in an x86 CPU, t… |
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@[email protected] whatever, I'm playing stardew. I don't care… |
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Post #AglKoI2MydNzGtwqBc by [email protected] |
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@julia that's just outright false |
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@[email protected] google intel management engine and scheduler |
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@julia so, you're telling me that if I take apart the ME firmware image for… |
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@whitequark oh, I see. I just mean that the abstract machine encodes all data a… |
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@sjolsen ohhh I see, so if you replace "bitstring" with "bytestr… |
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@whitequark ig the less-tryhard way of wording this is "it's all just … |
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@whitequark i think it depends on what structures you're modifying with ass… |
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@[email protected] @[email protected] Yes. Because intel themselves have … |
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@[email protected] @[email protected] And while these are sensationalist … |
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@[email protected] @[email protected] It's not exactly like it's … |
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@puppygirlhornypost @julia yes, exactly my point--a few Intel SoCs definitely u… |
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@whitequark tomato, tomato, yes (well, depending on the precise definition of &… |
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@sjolsen sorry, typo, edited! |
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Post #AglMKODlcYxnfg9Jui by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] @[email protected] well, the problem is that ME still … |
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@puppygirlhornypost @julia there's actually a TOCTTOU bug in firmware signa… |
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@puppygirlhornypost @julia (basically, it first reads the firmware to check its… |
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Post #AglOUk5zLYHWJmZjHc by [email protected] |
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@whitequark It's a pretty weak type system but it's there, the thing is… |
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@whitequark @steve and then there's the VAX arithmetic shift and round a pa… |
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@puppygirlhornypost @julia this is different than what Intel is doing though! s… |
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@whitequark @tomoyo to me, calling x86 assembly typed sounds a lot like calling… |
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@recursive @tomoyo is that a "I feel like it's typed" or "I … |
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many of you have never implemented a CPU and it shows o:3(that in itself isn… |
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@kyle so it's a syntax error, right? that's a reasonable interpretation… |
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@[email protected] :neofox_melt_3: we gave up on trying to do FP… |
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@natty this is why I dedicated a non-trivial fraction of my entire life to buil… |
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@whitequark At the instruction level, there are a few types for operands, but w… |
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@typeswitch this is a really good point! |
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on the topic of types, the synthesis of the very large amount of replies I got … |
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the next time i want to feel awake but coffee isn't cutting it i'll ask… |
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@whitequark I feel like I have an answer to this but the problem is you specifi… |
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@mcc replace x86 with ARMv8? |
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@whitequark hm ok this is imo answerable but I am by the side of the road so it… |
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@whitequark yes, trivial gnu example:_start: add r1,0x1234<source>:2: … |
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@raggi isn't that a syntax error rather than a type error?(also I don't… |
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@ironiridis it was explicitly and deliberately bait from the very beginning (I … |
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@whitequark it’s valid syntax in other contexts, so the syntax indicates some… |
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@raggi to you, what is a type? |
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@whitequark I haven't yet implemented a CPU but I HAVE implemented an x86-6… |
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if I think of what a typechecker does, it involves maintaining some kind of typ… |
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@whitequark does it count if it's only 4 bit? https://github.com/ParzivalWo… |
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Post #AglVpbQdSsL1CM7vFI by [email protected] |
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@parzivalwolfram sure why not |
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@whitequark at a fundamental level a type defines a set of allowed values, and … |
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@raggi right! I guess if your context begins and ends at the boundary of a sing… |
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@whitequark yeah, that's definitely a fair abstraction as we tend to live t… |
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@raggi certainly; it's not any more possible to say exactly what a type is … |
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@whitequark type checking is a form of semantic analysis and I’m not aware of… |
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@agocke does deciding whether the combination of prefixes, mnemonic, and operan… |
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@whitequark I have no idea how hardware is put together, but isn’t it just li… |
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@chrisvest you got the basics down right! |
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@whitequark @raggi What is a type? A miserable little pile of values!(Sorry) |
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@whitequark It's typed, it's just that there's only one type.(This … |
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@xgranade this is a take some people have very seriously and i think it's, … |
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@whitequark thinking about it, the closest I’ve ever gotten to hardware is pr… |
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@whitequark Only if it isn't generated by a compiler... |
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@[email protected] Possibly a silly question, but does the answer to t… |
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@squid yeah CHERI is pretty unambiguously dynamically typed |
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@whitequark no, it’s usually toggled from the front panel. |
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@whitequark I think the important part is that those values are typically incom… |
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@c_cube well if you use an instruction that takes registers with a memory opera… |
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@c_cube that's what I'm asking, cube! |
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@whitequark @julia now you got me curious about what the microcode actually _do… |
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@toadjaune the way microcode generally works is that some instructions (not all… |
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@toadjaune there is often some possibility for branching (jumping and sometimes… |
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@toadjaune this is like a bird's eye view. there is a decent amount of reso… |
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@whitequark oh, ok, so if I get this right, what you mean is that it's not … |
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@toadjaune yesI think Intel published some papers? |
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@[email protected] @[email protected] Intel CPUs have a performa… |
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@niconiconi @whitequark oh, I'm surprised that they expose that.One would t… |
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@toadjaune @niconiconi oh, people have reverse-engineered _far more_ than that;… |
