pretty_laughable_lang VS x86doc

Compiling to machine code is not that hard once you get to the IR or bytecode phase, check out this toy compiler:

https://github.com/byo-books/pretty_laughable_lang/

No this is just false. They are not being converted to machine code. But maybe we are getting tripped up on language here. Machine code, to me (and everyone else with a background in computer science) means something specific -- something like x64: https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/ . This is absolutely not the representation that is being used for prompts or anything like it.

To understand the instructions themselves, I mean all instructions nothing beat the Intel manual but you probably don't want to read it for such use case. This less complete reference might be better suited for you: https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/

Meanwhile here's x86. There's roughly one thousand instructions if you ignore various size prefixes/suffixes and many more if you don't.

I don't think CS 261 has an online posted anything available prior to you doing the class, but I could be wrong. But here's a gift from me to you that you'll want for the class: https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/

As far as I know, this website has all of the instructions and how to use them.

I recently got interested in developing low-level stuff, like kernels, operating systems, and others. So, I want to create a disassembler for learning how machine code/assembly code in x86 is truly like. While trying to find documentation for the x86 platform, I only found confusing documentation that didn't help me reach my goal. Do you guys have any websites / documents that helped you create a disassembler? Any suggestions are welcome.