this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2023
818 points (91.4% liked)

Programmer Humor

19689 readers
85 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
anzo
Feyter
BurningTurtle
pylapp
818
Its not wrong though (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor
134 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

xor ax, ax

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A fancy way to say do nothing is not the same as translating back and forth. Example: Show me the intermediate translation.

Also we live in a 64bit world now old man

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're right.

xor rax, rax

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) 
GF2P8AFFINEINVQB xmm1, xmm2, 10
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Also that instruction does not do nothing, it resets the CPU register to zero without having to access RAM. Far from a NOP instruction.