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		rabidrat on June 3, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What If I Don't Actually Like My Users? (2008) In an assembly context, cmp means 'set the flags as though you subtracted but don't do the subtraction'. This particular misdesign is from before C.

ArkyBeagle on June 3, 2016 [–]

I blame Ben Franklin for guessing wrong about the sign of the charge of the electron.

(I keed, I keed )

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