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ximeng on Oct 1, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Computers are made of metal, not category theory

What do all the call statements do? They seem a little redundant as they skip forward to the next statement each time.

to3m on Oct 1, 2014 [–]

Note that the operand in each case is 0x00000000.

I suspect this is a disassembly of the .o file, or maybe it's some runtime dynamic linking thing? There'll be a fixup table somewhere and this stuff will be sorted out before it's executed.

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