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2. At a certain point in my code, I wanted to load a pointer to the .data segment variable "input" into my %r10. The way to do this turned out to be

lea input(%rip), %r10

rip is… the instruction pointer?? what the devil is the instruction pointer doing there? `input` is at a fixed location, surely it's not loading it from an address relative to the fricking instruction pointer.