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registers
- Jun 2, 2026 System Call ABIs and the Register Argument Convention How arguments and return values cross the privilege boundary, why there are at most six of them, and why two ABIs on one machine can disagree about the layout of a struct. operating systems
- Jan 30, 2026 The Linearizable Register Beneath Every Coordination Primitive Why locks, membership lists, and leader election all reduce to reads and writes of one small object, and what linearizability adds that sequential consistency does not. distributed systems
- Dec 18, 2024 Function Call ABI: Register Assignment on x86-64 How the System V AMD64 ABI classifies arguments into eightbyte chunks, why some structures travel in registers and others on the stack, and what the callee must preserve. systems programming