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MIPS Assembly language 2017-08-07 02:48:59 Post No. 61779948
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I start my final year of college soon and have decided I want to enroll on a computer architecture module which has a bit of MIPS assembly programming in it, what does /g/ think about MIPS? Any tips on learning x86 assembly programming?
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>>61779948
I'm here for the destep and phon threds bro
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>>61779948
Learn binary first.
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>>>>61780012
I think you misread "final year" as "first year" in my sentence.
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>>61780071
Oops then you should focus on Malbolge.
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>>61779948
MIPS > x86_64 > x86 > ARM
MIPS is the easiest of them all, has a lot of registers and really simple behaviour. It is often used as first step in teaching assembly.
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>>61779948
I'd rather learn something useful. What's the point of learning MIPS assembly?
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>>61779948
I mean, any assembly language will do, but delay slots are not a thing anymore. It's not like you need to program the PlayStation 1, and as an embedded processor architecture it's obsoleted by ARM and RISC-V.
I guess it's not that hard to begin with.
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>>61780629
What's so bad about ARM?
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what does /int/ think about Latin? Any tips on learning Finnish?
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>>61783649
doesn't appeal to contrarians enough
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MIPS is shit
X86 and x86-64 is beautiful
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MIPS is easy, x86 isn't too bad.
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>>61783649
Every CPU is subtly different enough that you have to re-read the manual to do anything serious. There is a lot of undefined behavior. RISC can be difficult for humans to write. Operations on memory can be difficult to do properly and the memory layout is usually complex with devices being mapped different regions.
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>>61780649
neckbeard points
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