What is the difference between object code, machine code and assembly code? Can you give a visual example of their difference?

I've been using objdump to look at assembly code in Linux ELF binaries. Sometimes there is an indirect jump through a jump table that is stored in the rodata (read-only data) section. How to get ...

I am new to programming and I started with C++ language, as far as I know C++ language is converted to assembly language by the C++ compiler (Ex:Visual Studio), but I tried looking up for what conv...

What are the implications on portability (calling convention: does it really matter at an LLVM level when only calling into C or OS library functions) link time optimizations I would like to co...

If you have a particular line of C code in mind to examine in the machine output, how would you locate it in objdump output. Here is an example if (cond) foo; bar(); and I want to see if bar w...