Post #4400814

2026-08-05 20:17 UTC

one intriguing possibility is that several UTF-8 emoji codepoints start with 0xF0 which is an otherwise harmless prefix on 8088 💯 -> f0 9f 92 af this becomes 00000000 F0 9F lock lahf 00000002 92 xchg dx,ax 00000003 AF scasd

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@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space 2026-08-05 20:25

Although you're stuck with 9F it seems, so you're constantly trashing AH by calling lahf. If we accept this as a constant side effect, we can just use half of the bytes. unfortunately you kinda need AH to call interrupts... so let's identify some useful emoji. here's NOP: 🐐

Open ##4400813
@gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-08-06 18:25

@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space Do your options improve if you use UTF-16 or UTF-32 (whether BE or LE) encoding of the emoji?

Open ##4460008