Introducing IF coding in ARMv8 (Ep. 1)

Implement some IF statement problems in ARMv8 (in a Linux environment using GCC). Use GDB to verify some of the results, and optimize it at the assembly level. If you're interested in following along with the code, this environment uses an AWS EC2 ARM instance. 0:57 Implement C-code to rectify the variable i so that if its value is below zero, set it to zero. 1:35 Implement the previous code in ARMv8. 6:04 How to use the reference zero register (for a 32-bit word). 7:05 Compile the code using GCC and validate the code in GDB. Includes examples of how to set an arbitrary break point in the assembly code. 8:14 How to use GDB to view the value of a scalar integer declared in static memory. 8:45 Implement C-code to obtain the absolute value of variable i. 9:16 Implement the previous code in ARMv8. Additional Exercise: After implementing the absolute value code, verify it works in GDB.