Understanding C by learning assembly - Blog - Recurse CenterLast time, Alan showed how to use GDB as a tool to learn C. Today I want to go one step further and use GDB to help us understand assembly as well. Abstraction layers are great tools for building things, but they can sometimes get in the way of learning. My goal in this post is to convince you that in order to rigorously understand C, we must also understand the assembly that our C compiler genera
