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Get To Know Your Compiler

Learn about compilation stages, X86 assembly registers, instructions, and Compiler Explorer functionalities. Understand key concepts in assembly programming and runtime complexities. Get insights on compiler optimization and enhancing programming skills.

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Get To Know Your Compiler

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  1. Get To Know Your Compiler Inspired by Matt Godbolt

  2. Did you get the openFrameworks Example Working? • Yes • No • What???

  3. Compilation Stages • Preprocessor Run preprocessor directives –E for clang • Compiler Compile the preprocessed source code • -S Generate Assembly • -c Generate Object Code • Linker Generate executable from object files

  4. Does it matter?

  5. X86 Assembly Registers • rax, rbx, rcx, rdx, rsp, rbp, rsi, rdi, r8-r15 • xmm0-xmm15 • rdi, rsi, rdx … arguments • rax is the return value

  6. Register Details

  7. Instructions • op is call, ret, add, sub, cmp… • dest, src is register or memory reference • [base + reg1 + reg2 (1, 2, 4, or 8) ]

  8. Instruction Examples

  9. Summary • Register: rax, rbx, rcx … • Size: rax, eax, ax .. • Params: rdi, rsi, rdx, rcx … • Result: rax • Format: op dest, src • destandsrc are registers or memory

  10. So Does it matter?

  11. Compiler Explorer • Godbolt.org

  12. What is going on?

  13. Multiplication

  14. Fancy Multiplication

  15. Division

  16. Summation intsumTo(int x) { int sum = 0; for( inti = 0; i <= x; ++i ) { sum += i; } return sum; } What is the runtime? A) O(1) B) O(x) C) O(x^2) D) What on earth is big O?

  17. Sum(X) from CS 173

  18. The compiler is your friend

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