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niccaluim on March 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Execu...

Isn't that required of interrupt handlers on any architecture, even modern ones?

Drakim on March 19, 2016 [–]

Is it? I was so sure that modern architectures could just push your entire set of registers away to a stack with a single instruction, since it's so common.

niccaluim on March 20, 2016 | [–]

I honestly don't know. I haven't done any assembly since the days of the 680x0.

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