Guide to Assembly Language Programming in Linux

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Overview

   1. Assembly Language

      Pages 3-8

3. Computer Organization

   1. Digital Logic Circuits

      Pages 11-44

   2. Memory Organization

      Pages 45-60

   3. The IA-32 Architecture

      Pages 61-78

4. Linux

   1. Installing Linux

      Pages 81-114

   2. Using Linux

      Pages 115-149

5. NASM

   1. Installing and Using NASM

      Pages 153-166

   2. Debugging Assembly Language Programs

      Pages 167-184

6. Assembly Language

   1. A First Look at Assembly Language

      Pages 187-210

   2. More on Assembly Language

      Pages 211-229

   3. Writing Procedures

      Pages 231-253

   4. More on Procedures

      Pages 255-272

   5. Addressing Modes

      Pages 273-290

   6. Arithmetic Instructions

      Pages 291-316

   7. Conditional Execution

      Pages 317-339

   8. Logical and Bit Operations

      Pages 341-360

7. Advanced Assembly Language

   1. String Processing

      Pages 363-378

   2. ASCII and BCD Arithmetic

      Pages 379-390

   3. Recursion

      Pages 391-401

Processor designs can be broadly divided into CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computers) and RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computers). The dominant processor in the PC market, Pentium, belongs to the CISC category, and Linux is fast becoming the number one threat to Microsoft’s Windows in the server market. This unique guidebook provides comprehensive coverage of the key elements of Assembly language programming, specifically targeting professionals and students who would like to learn Assembly and intend or expect to move to the Linux operating system.

The book instructs users on how to install Linux on existing Windows machines. Readers are introduced to Linux and its commands, and will gain insights into the NASM assembler (installation and usage).

• Assembler
• Assembly language
• Debugging
• Extreme Programming
• Installation
• Interrupt
• Linux
• Processing
• Windows
• design
• language
• logic
• operating system
• programming
• server

• School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

  Sivarama P. Dandamudi

Sivarama P. Dandamudi is a professor of computer science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, as well as associate editor responsible for computer architecture at the International Journal of Computers and Their Applications.  He has more than two decades of experience teaching about computer systems and organization.

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