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Assembler danger?

Started by Boops Apr 25, 2003 at 9:13 AM 1 reply 250+ views

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Apr 25, 2003 at 9:13 AM

When you don''t know what you''re doing with assembler, can you accidently ruin your system, like overwrite some file on the HD and such? I''m editing some assembly code of a 256 byte raytracer (lattice from www.256b.com) and get some cool effects like other colors and weird shapes by changing some random commands and values here and there. So is there any danger with this?

Evil Bill

Apr 25, 2003 at 9:22 AM

Nope.
If you''re very clever you might end up crashing your system, but to do any damage to the HD you need to be messing around with the interupts.

Raduprv

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Raduprv

Apr 25, 2003 at 10:38 AM

ASM is no different than C, when you make mistakes. Sure, if you call a kernel function that writes things on the disk, at a very low level, you might ruin your HDD, but then again, you can do the same in C, or other languages.

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