6 docs tagged with "low-level"

ABI defines how compiled code interacts at the binary level: calling conventions, name mangling,

Assembly language is a human-readable, (mostly) one-to-one text representation of machine code — the

When one function calls another, both sides need to agree on where the arguments go, where the

Embed assembly instructions directly in C++ code for performance-critical operations, hardware access, or platform-specific features unavailable in C++.

Disassembly is the practical skill this whole section builds toward: given compiled machine code —

Every x86-64 instruction operates on a small set of named storage locations — registers — and/or