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Anyone here use assembly? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by sag@lemm.ee to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] leo85811nardo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

From my understanding, one of the actual use case of assembly is for cyber security engineers to dump assembly instructions from a compiled program, so they can check for any potential vulnerability. I've also seen assembly included in an embedded codebase (the overall project is in C), which I assume is for more optimized performance and deterministic behavior