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# Passive ARM Assembly Skills for Debugging, Optimization (and Hacking)


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 18, 2024
- **Time:** 11:30–12:00 (30 min)
- **Room:** STAGE 10 (120)
- **Event:** World Congress 2024

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1083-passive-arm-assembly-skills-for-debugging-optimization-and-hacking)

## Description

Reading assembly code is an important skill for debugging and optimization. Is there a bug in a 3rd party framework that you don't have the source code for?  Are you calling into a system framework and it does not behave the way you expect? Do you want to understand the code the compiler generates, depending on the optimization level you choose? I have done all of these things more often than I would have liked in the past and I had acquired a solid understanding of x86 assembler code over the years. All was well until, suddenly, I had an ARM machine on my desk.
If you are, like me, using ARM machines a lot and always wanted a gentle introduction to ARM assembler code, this is the talk for you.


## Speaker

### [Sebastian Theophil](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@sebastian-theophil)

Senior Software Engineer


## Related talks at this congress

- [Unleashing the Full Potential of the Arm Architecture – Write Once, Deploy Anywhere](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/145-unleashing-the-full) — Andrew Wafaa
- [Programming secure C#/.NET Applications: Dos & Don'ts](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/198-programming-secure-c) — Sebastian Leuer
- [The Lifehacker's Guide to Software Architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/269-the-lifehacker-s) — Julian Lang
- [Let's write an exploit using AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/360-let-s-write-an) — Julian Totzek-Hallhuber