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Here is a challenge: What is the shortest possible compiled program? Writing one line programs are fun, but they often lean on language libraries that get pulled into the final bits. How lean can you ...
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Languages, such as C++, have introduced a new comparison operator: <=>. This operator returns -1, 0, or 1† when comparing two items together: −1 means the ...
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Modern hardware can perform multiplication very fast in a constant latency of 3~4 cycles. But some tiny chips for embedded environments sometimes lack hardware multiplication, which has to be emulated ...
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This is the second version of the task. The original task had a defect that the given range of integers was too small. This was pointed out by @harold that other methods couldn't defeat the way of ...
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Related to AoC2017 Day 18, Part 2. (Anyone want to add Duet to esolangs?) Duet is an assembly-like language that involves two processes running the same program simultaneously. Each process of Duet ...
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I was trying to write a short MIPS32 code for computing the median of three registers. The rules: Assume that some values are pre-loaded into $t0, ...
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There's only one question for machine-language golfing, and it's for the ia32 and amd64 architectures. Here's one for a predecessor of them: the Zilog Z80! The ISA is available here. As usual, if your ...
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Introduction I've always liked the idea of finding the most possible bang-for-your-buck squeezed out of a tiny chip, like the 6502. Of course, I'll need to start small. Filling the screen on 6502asm....
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Your program is supposed to create a full red screen in MSDOS. The source of the binary (.com file) must be 5 bytes or less. No wild assumptions, the binary must work in MsDos, DosBox, and FreeDos ...
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Let's assume we've got an imaginary assembler. The assembler supports numerical labels. An infinite loop example: :1 jmp 1 Your task is, to write a ...
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I need to construct a functor that iterates over the linear representation of a sub-lattice of size \$d_x,d_y,d_z,d_q\$ embedded in a lattice of size \$n_x,n_y,n_z,n_q\$. The sub-lattice corner is ...
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Background I like my old 8-bit 6502 chip. It's even fun to solve some of the challenges here on PPCG in 6502 machine code. But some things that should be simple (like, read in data or output to stdout)...
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The task is simple: Create an if-statement from scratch in x86 assembly that runs in as few clock-cycles as possible. Must be x86 assembly. Can't use any of the conditional jump/branch instructions (e....
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As an exercise, I've created a simple solution for this challenge, in x86 Assembly Language. I'm running this with FASM on Windows. Here's my source code: ...
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I noticed that there's no such question, so here it is: Do you have general tips for golfing in x86/x64 machine code? If the tip only applies to a certain environment or calling convention, please ...
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This is a Hello World challenge! Those plain ones! Yeah.... However, it's different this time. Because here, you can't use C or C++ or Stuck or ArnoldC or whatever you want. You can only choose raw ...
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What is the smallest possible runnable Mach-O executable on x86_64? The program can do nothing (not even returning a return code), but must be a valid executable (must run without errors). My try: ...
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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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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; } ...
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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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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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This is an adaption of Core War, a programming KOTH dating back to the 20th century. To be more specific, it is using an incredibly simplified instruction set primarily based off of the original ...
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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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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, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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, ...
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