summer love lessons - renewing the knack for asm
i’ve only been slacking, eating and watching anime since summer started. this afternoon, i found the time to begin work on assemblifying a bash script i saw some days ago. the bash script has been modified already but it’s former function was simply a “for loop” wget to fetch a 0-22 page html version of a book - 1984. while i really didn’t achieve a boost in speed nor a significant cut in file size over the bash counterpart, the activity presented me a scenario where i had to do string and buffer manipulations in asm. also, i cheated, since i used extern printf print the strings. the program’s current size is 8.0 kilobytes which is double the size of the bash script. though i can pass the fault to gcc, linking of additional sections to produce the final elf object.
nothing much from this one really. again, some things are better off scripted. check her site out for even shorter suggestions. anyway, the program is complete now. here goes.
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