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merraksh on Feb 5, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: A C89 compiler that produces executables that are ...

Do I see a Sierpinski triangle on page 9? It's the code that, according to the description, changes the value of the AL register.

bonzini on Feb 5, 2018 [–]

No, it is the _data_ that the compiler precomputes to help changing the value of the AL register. It is unused here, in fact it is cropped to 160 columns and it has a caption in the middle so it's wrong even. He included it just because it looks cool.

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