I’ve always been intrigued by Assembly. Every time I’ve looked at the generated Assembly for my C or Zig code, it’s always been interesting to see: How the simple things taken for granted are not so ...

If you've ever worked with Linux or compiled software from source, you've likely used GNU Binutils without even realizing it. The GNU Binutils suite is essential for assembling, linking, and managing ...

In the world of cybersecurity and software development, binary analysis holds a unique place. It is the art of examining compiled programs to understand their functionality, identify vulnerabilities, ...

If you've ever wondered how programs run on Linux, you might be surprised to learn that a special file format called ELF, or Executable and Linkable Format, is at the heart of it all. ELF files are ...

When we first wrote about the 10-cent CH32V003 RISC-V MCU it was offered in a $7 development board and the closed-source MounRiver Studio IDE had to be used for programming. But things have improved ...

I built and ran this code on Ubuntu 18.04.1 with LLVM 7 (the setup steps I went through to get the LLVM libraries are included as part of iovisor/bcc#1964). First, use the LLVM toolchain to compile ...

Install Android NDK and set env var NDK to the dir: export NDK=__the_top_dir_of_installed_NDK__. Otherwise, it will guess NDK dir from env vars: ANDROID_NDK_ROOT ...