I remember sitting in front of my ZX Spectrum with 64 KB of memory (16 KB ROM + 48 KB RAM) with an old tape recorder plugged in, and a newly bought cassette inserted. Among the relatively large amount of programs on the cassette, there was one that specifically drew my attention. Not that it was able to do anything special; after all, it simply computed personal biorhythm graphs based on the date of birth (in fact, I had to enter the current date too) and plotted them on the screen. There wasn't even any sophistication in the algorithm (how ever sophisticated an algorithm may be when it is all about calculation of sine over some value). What seemed to be interesting was the Wait while results are being processed message, which had some kind of a progress bar that appeared for for almost half a minute (yes, I was naive enough to think that some calculations...
Mastering Assembly Programming
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Mastering Assembly Programming
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Overview of this book
The Assembly language is the lowest level human readable programming language on any platform. Knowing the way things are on the Assembly level will help developers design their code in a much more elegant and efficient way. It may be produced by compiling source code from a high-level programming language (such as C/C++) but can also be written from scratch. Assembly code can be converted to machine code using an assembler.
The first section of the book starts with setting up the development environment on Windows and Linux, mentioning most common toolchains. The reader is led through the basic structure of CPU and memory, and is presented the most important Assembly instructions through examples for both Windows and Linux, 32 and 64 bits. Then the reader would understand how high level languages are translated into Assembly and then compiled into object code. Finally we will cover patching existing code, either legacy code without sources or a running code in same or remote process.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Preface
Setting Up a Development Environment
Intel Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)
Memory Addressing Modes
Parallel Data Processing
Macro Instructions
Data Structures
Mixing Modules Written in Assembly and Those Written in High-Level Languages
Operating System Interface
Patching Legacy Code
Oh, Almost Forgot
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