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Bootloader golf: Brainf***
Create a bootloader that executes given Brainfuck program. This is code-golf, so the program with least bytes wins. Being a bootloader, the size of the program is counted in non-zero bytes in the ...
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Help golfing MIPS assembly [closed]
I want to write 7 assembly instructions (28 bytes) that runs a logical equivalent of this C snippet:
c = a + b + 6;
while (c > 5) {
c = c - a;
b = b + 1;
}
However, there are restrictions to ...
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Box-256 Assembly - BIG SQUARE II
I'd like to start a series of challenges for http://box-256.com/ starting with the first challenge, “BIG SQUARE II”. After this one I'll add another for "CHECKERBOARD" and so on.
Rules:
Complete the ...
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1answer
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Copy Memory Only Using Store And Subtraction
A peer of mine approached me with this challenge and I wasn't able to come up with an elegant solution. After discussing my approach, we began to wonder what the people at Code Golf would come up with....
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Code the shortest for incremental adding up until > 100 in Hack Assembly Language [closed]
You can find the Hack Assembly Language specification here: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/course/2002/nand2tet/docs/ch_4_machine_language.pdf
You can download the Hack Computer emulator here:
http://www....
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Fastest way to compute order of magnitude in x86 assembly
The task is simple: write assembly that computes the order of magnitude of an integer using as few clock cycles as possible.
Order of magnitude is defined as log10, not log2.
The range of valid input ...
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votes
1answer
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WinAli - Virtual CPU for understanding assembly language
WinAli is a model assembler for Windows. It emulates a real CPU and is meant to help students learning and understanding the Assembly language.
German Wikipedia article: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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votes
1answer
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write an “operating system” that dims Num Lock
I want to write x86 assembler code that can be used to boot your computer from and dims NumLock. This means
you cannot rely on glibc or any other of these "comfi" libraries
you cannot rely on the ...
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Self-contained hello-world program
I want a program that outputs "hello world" on console on my x86_64 based Linux computer. Yes, a complete program, not something silly that needs an interpreter or a compiler to work.
You may:
use ...
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votes
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Prime sieve and sort (x86 asm)
Your challenge is to write a routine, in x86 assembly, which takes a buffer containing 32-bit signed integers and writes a sorted list of the prime values to another buffer, then returns the number of ...
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votes
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Shortest code that return SIGSEGV among the given languages
I come across a question in a coding competion
"write a code that returns SIGSEGV(Segmentation fault ) " .
Points were given on the basis of length of code.
The prgramming languages available ...
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Assembly Language Quine
Write the shortest possible assembly-language quine.
Use any ISA you want, unless it has a print-quine instruction or equivalent. Examples include x86, MIPS, SPARC, MMIX, IBM BAL, MIX, VAX, JVM, ARM,...
