OFF TOPIC mov is Turing complete
Michael Torrie
torriem at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 00:17:07 EDT 2016
On 10/11/2016 09:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Completely off-topic, but too awesome not to share:
>
> The x86 assembly language "mov" instruction is Turing complete:
>
> https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/papers/mov.pdf
And apparently someone has taken this and made a small C compiler that
compiles to nothing but mov instructions. Amazing:
https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator
Now I'm sure malware writers will take full advantage of this to make
reverse-engineering of their code difficult!
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