• @Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca
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    2011 months ago

    They are talking about computer things, that’s about how familiar I am with whatever they are talking about.

    • Ephera
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      3211 months ago

      Yeah, it’s intentionally obscure. Basically, x86 assembly code is a way of telling a processor what to calculate, at a very low level.
      So, it’s similar to programming languages, but those actually get translated into x86 assembly code, before it’s told to the processor. (“x86” is a certain processor architecture. Others exist, too, most prominently “ARM”.)

      But yeah, even with me knowing that much, I’d need to guess what ret and int3 might do.

      Everyone knows jmp and nop, though, of course. 🙃

      • Kevin
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        211 months ago

        return from subroutine, int3 would be something relating to interrupts off the top of my head.

        • @mormegil@programming.dev
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          311 months ago

          Int3 is a special single-byte (CC, if I recall correctly) form of the INT instruction (which is CD imm8, I think) to raise an interrupt. Interrupt #3 is the debugging interrupt, so by overwriting any instruction with CC, you place a breakpoint there.