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Some Mnemonics (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I still don't know why this architecture went for a Double XOR as the NOP, I guess they were just flexing that the reference chip design could do both in a single cycle

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

When returning from kernel code, one should issue Drop Execution Ring Privileges, of course.