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+title: "How is C useful for for understanding how computers work?"
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+description: ""
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+date: "2024-01-30"
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+draft: true
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+---
+
+Read this first [https://irreal.org/blog/?p=12304](https://irreal.org/blog/?p=12304) I'm going to be critiquing it and you should read it and understand what it says first so you can make fun of me for misreading it.
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+- It's not verilog
+- Most C programs written by beginners aren't operating systems
+- Most C programs written by beginners aren't using syscalls directly
+- C doesn't map cleanly to asm due to UB and compiler optimizations and also because of compiler optimizations
+
+```c
+// what x86 asm does this translate to and is it really a clean mapping?
+int example(){
+    int a = 5;
+    int b = something();
+    return a;
+}
+```