Most of the time we read disassembly only to answer one simple question: does the compiler do what we expect it to do? In 3 simple exercises, I’ll show you that often enough you too can answer this question even if you have no previous knowledge of assembly. I’ll use C++ as a source language, but what I’m trying to show is more or less universal, so it doesn’t matter if you write in C or Swift, C# or Rust. If you compile to any kind of machine code — you can benefit from understanding your compiler.