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Understanding C and Assembly
Material to understand how computers interpret numbers to calculate things and how the C-Code is actually transferred into Intel x86 Assembly
https://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html
How is a floating point number stored in memory?
https://www3.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/manuals/64-ia-32-architectures-software-developer-instruction-set-reference-manual-325383.pdf
"Quickly" lookup ASM instructions
https://cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall03/V22.0201-003/c_att_syntax.html
During debugging sessions how to interpret AT&T syntax
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Assembly/X86_Architecture#General-Purpose_Registers_(GPR)_-_16-bit_naming_conventions
Meaning and usage of registers like RAX, RDI, ... are used and when
https://www.swansontec.com/sregisters.html
if you have time and want to read more about it