Manuel Rigger, Stefan Marr, Stephen Kell, David Leopoldseder, Hanspeter Mössenböck,
"An Analysis of x86-64 Inline Assembly in C Programs"
: Proceeding VEE '18 Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, ACM New York, NY, USA, 3-2018, ISBN: 978-1-4503-5579-7
Original Titel:
An Analysis of x86-64 Inline Assembly in C Programs
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
Proceeding VEE '18 Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments
Original Kurzfassung:
C codebases frequently embed nonportable and unstandard-
ized elements such as inline assembly code. Such elements are
not well understood, which poses a problem to tool develop-
ers who aspire to support C code. This paper investigates the
use of x86-64 inline assembly in 1264 C projects from GitHub
and combines qualitative and quantitative analyses to answer
questions that tool authors may have. We found that 28.1%
of the most popular projects contain inline assembly code,
although the majority contain only a few fragments with
just one or two instructions. The most popular instructions
constitute a small subset concerned largely with multicore
semantics, performance optimization, and hardware control.
Our findings are intended to help developers of C-focused
tools, those testing compilers, and language designers seek-
ing to reduce the reliance on inline assembly. They may also
aid the design of tools focused on inline assembly itself
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