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| | In this post, we are going to take a deep dive into pointer tagging, where metadata is encoded into a word-sized pointer. Doing so allows us to keep a compact representation that can be passed around in machine registers. This is very common in implementing dynamic programming languages, but can really be used anywhere that additional runtime information is needed about a pointer. We will look at a handful of different ways these pointers can be encoded and see how the compiler can optimize them for diff...
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| | [AI summary] The author details the process of building and using an old version of the GNU C Compiler (GCC 1.27) on a modern system, highlighting compatibility challenges and successful bootstrapping.
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| A simple example of how to use WebAssembly in the browser and what the toolchain looks like.