Executable Emoji

11 points by MBCook 6 hours ago | 4 comments

account42 19 minutes ago |

Waiting for someone to an emoji-x86 backend to LLVM/GCC.

joha4270 1 hour ago |

Oh this is delightful!

x86 assembly isn't something I'm familiar with (and I should really get back to $dayjob), but I will mention the existence of emoji-test.txt [1] in case somebody wants to try and mine more executable sequences. It might be worth paying attention to the minimally-qualified, unqualified and component lines, which can be added and removed semi freely. No idea if they actually correspond to useful byte sequences.

[1]: https://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/latest/emoji-test.txt

fuzzfactor 4 hours ago |

For this to be reproducible the browser version is going to need to be specified.

joha4270 2 hours ago | |

I don't see why that would matter. Sure, it was noticed on a browser but ultimately this article is about overlap between x86 assembly and a subset of the unicode standard. The browser isn't really involved.