Assembly Language Step-by-Step: Programming with
DOS and Linux, Second Edition
by Jeff Duntemann |
ISBN:0471375233 |
John Wiley & Sons © 2000 (613 pages) |
|
A “Lost World” journey into 16-bit assembler programming concepts and techniques.
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Table of Contents
Assembly Language Step-by-Step—Programming with DOS and Linux, Second
Edition
Foreword
Introduction - "Why Would You Want to Do That?"
Chapter 1 - Another Pleasant Valley Saturday Understanding What Computers Really Do
Chapter 2 - Alien Bases Getting Your Arms around Binary and Hexadecimal Chapter 3 - Lifting the Hood Discovering What Computers Actually Are
Chapter 4 - The Right to Assemble The Process of Making Assembly Language Programs
Chapter 5 - NASM-IDE: A Place to Stand Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.
Chapter 6 - An Uneasy Alliance The x86 CPU and Its Segmented Memory System
Chapter 7 - Following Your Instructions Meeting Machine Instructions up Close and Personal
Chapter 8 - Our Object All Sublime Creating Programs that Work
Chapter 9 - Dividing and Conquering Using Procedures and Macros to Battle Complexity
Chapter 10 - Bits, Flags, Branches, and Tables Easing into Mainstream Assembly Programming
Chapter 11 - Stringing Them Up Those Amazing String Instructions
Chapter 12 - The Programmer's View of Linux Tools and Skills to Help You Write Assembly Code under a True 32-Bit OS
Chapter 13 - Coding for Linux Applying What You've Learned to a True Protected Mode Operating System
Conclusion - Not the End, But Only the Beginning
Appendix A - Partial 8086/8088 Instruction Set Reference
Appendix B - Segment Register Assumptions for Real Mode Segmented Model Appendix C - Web URLs for Assembly Programmers
Appendix D - Segment Register Assumptions
Appendix E - What's on the CD-ROM?
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables
Back Cover
The bestselling guide to assembly language--now updated and expanded to include coverage of Linux.
This new edition of the bestselling guide to assembly programming now covers DOS and Linux! The Second Edition begins with a highly accessible overview of the internal operations of the Intel-based PC and systematically covers all the steps involved in writing, testing, and debugging assembly programs.
Expert author Jeff Duntemann then presents working example programs for both the DOS and Linux operating systems using the popular free assembler NASM. He also inlcudes valuable infomation on how to use procedures and macros, plus rare explanations of assembly-level coding for Linux, all of which combine to offer a comprehensive look at the complexitites of assembly programming for Intel processors.
Providing you with the foundation to create executable assembly language programs, this book:
Explains how to use NASM-IDE, a simple program editor and assembly-oriented development environment
Details the most used elements of the 86-family instruction set
Teaches about DEBUG, the single most useful tool you have as an assembly language programmer Examines the operations that machine instructions force the CPU to perform
Discusses the process of memory addressing
Covers coding for Linux
About the Author
Jeff Duntemann is the Editor-in-Chief of Visual Developer Techniques, the "Structured Programming" columnist for than twenty programming books.
magazine, former editor of Turbo Technix and PC Dr. Dobb’s Journal, and has written and edited more
Assembly Language Step-by-Step—Programming
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Duntemann, Jeff.
Assembly language step-by-step : programming with DOS and Linux / Jeff Duntemann.—2nd ed. p. cm.
Rev. ed. of: Assembly language, © 1992.
ISBN 0-471-37523-3 (paper/CD-ROM : alk. paper)
1. Assembler language (Computer program language)I. Duntemann, Jeff. Assembly language.II. Title.
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To the eternal memory of Kathleen M. Duntemann, Godmother 1920–1999 who gave me books when all I could do was put teeth marks on them. There are no words for how much I owe you!
Acknowledgments
First of all, to the authors of the software that I am honored to provide by their permission on this book's CD-ROM:
Robert Anderton, author of NASM-IDE: www.inglenook.co.uk/nasmide/
Anthony Williams, author of ALINK: http://alink.home.dhs.org/
And, of course, the NASM team: Julian "Jules" Hall, Simon Tatham, H. Peter Anvin, John Fine, Kendall Bennet, Gary Clark, and Andrew Crabtree: www.web-sites.co.uk/nasm/
Because of their generosity, there is "nothing else to buy." Everything you need to program in assembly is right here on the CD-ROM for this book.
Abundant thanks also go to Bill Schindler, for teaching me the ways of the C library, and Michael Abrash, who has always has been the rock upon whom my knowledge of assembly language itself has been anchored.
Finally, to Carol, as always, for the sacramental friendship that has challenged me, shaped me, and redeemed me every day of our 30 years together and 23 years as spouses.