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by tptacek 2260 days ago
No byte stores, required alignment, also annoying to write shellcode for!
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saagarjha 2260 days ago
Doesn’t MIPS have sb? Was that not part of MIPS I? (Or are you talking about DEC Alpha?)
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tptacek 2260 days ago
Alpha, sorry!
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saagarjha 2260 days ago
It’s hard to tell some of the RISCs apart ;)
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fit2rule 2260 days ago
Easy to say now. Back then, probing probing, always probing...
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tptacek 2258 days ago
It was annoying to write shellcode for back then.
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