I would like to thank all the people who have contributed ideas, answers, remarks, and moral support, and additionally the following persons, by order of appearance: .:: telegra.ph ::. .:: disqus.com ::. .:: telegra.ph ::.
Linus Torvalds for Linux
Simon Tatham and Julian Hall for NASM
Greg Hankins and now Tim Bynum for maintaining HOWTOs .:: kemono.im ::.
Raymond Moon for his FAQ
Eric Dumas for his translation of the mini-HOWTO into French (sad thing for the original author to be French and write in English) [Open Source MongoDB]
Paul Anderson and Rahim Azizarab for helping me, if not for taking over the HOWTO .:: www.scienceuniverse.org ::. .:: forum.prusa3d.com ::. [Big data Community]
Marc Lehman for his insight on GCC invocation
Abhijit Menon-Sen for helping me figure out the argument passing convention