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authorKartik Agaram <vc@akkartik.com>2018-09-29 16:07:05 -0700
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 Small example programs, each with a simple pedagogical goal.
+
+They also help to validate SubX instruction semantics against native x86
+hardware. For example, loading a single byte to a register would for some time
+clear the rest of the register. This behavior was internally consistent with
+unit tests. It took running an example binary natively to catch the discrepancy.