X86 Assembly Language and C Fundamentals 1st Edition by Joseph Cavanagh (PDF)

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The predominant language used in embedded microprocessors, assembly language lets you write programs that are typically faster and more compact than programs written in a high-level language and provide greater control over the program applications. Focusing on the languages used in X86 microprocessors, X86 Assembly Language and C Fundamentals explains how to write programs in the X86 assembly language, the C programming language, and X86 assembly language modules embedded in a C program. A wealth of program design examples, including the complete code and outputs, help you grasp the concepts more easily. Where needed, the book also details the theory behind the design.Learn the X86 Microprocessor Architecture and Commonly Used InstructionsAssembly language programming requires knowledge of number representations, as well as the architecture of the computer on which the language is being used. After covering the binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal number systems, the book presents the general architecture of the X86 microprocessor, individual addressing modes, stack operations, procedures, arrays, macros, and input/output operations. It highlights the most commonly used X86 assembly language instructions, including data transfer, branching and looping, logic, shift and rotate, and string instructions, as well as fixed-point, binary-coded decimal (BCD), and floating-point arithmetic instructions.Get a Solid Foundation in a Language Commonly Used in Digital HardwareWritten for students in computer science and electrical, computer, and software engineering, the book assumes a basic background in C programming, digital logic design, and computer architecture. Designed as a tutorial, this comprehensive and self-contained text offers a solid foundation in assembly language for anyone working with the design of digital hardware.

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⭐The author states on Page 217 that the focus of the book is to present X86 code segment modules embedded in C code.He tells you how the vast majority of the operands and instructions in X86 are manipulated but doesn’t elaborate on how it is used in any actual programs (i.e. he doesn’t examine an executable file or anything like that).Maybe this works for you and maybe it doesn’t, IMO this is the first book but certainly not the last book you should buy on X86.Be sure to check out Igor Zhirkov’s “Low-Level Programming” as soon as it is available…it looks very promising and may plug the holes I had with Cavanagh.

⭐I found this book to be one of the best texts on the market for learning Assembly Language. I have read the books by the current two giants of Assembly Language instruction (Randall Hyde and Kip Irvine). This book is better than both of those texts. It is a big book 800+ pages but explains everything very clearly and has detailed answers to many questions in the back of the book.The two ‘problems’ I had with the book was that Amazon does not provide a look inside for this text. This makes it difficult for someone to select the book as there is very little found about Professor Cavanagh’s teaching methods via Google searches.The second issue is that the book is missing a link to locations from which one can download MASM, TASM, FASM or NASM (the assemblers that can be used with this book). One can always find this information via Google; but, it would have been nice to have it readily available in an appendix of the book.

⭐Author explains the most basic concepts in the most complicated way. I couldn’t understand the material that I actually knew when reading those topics in his book.

⭐a wonderfull book at a wonderfull price

⭐Great

⭐So,here I am.It’s the second or third times a write a review here on Amazon, since it’s rare I feel compelled to tell something about an item.So… here I am.I bought this book, as you can guess, to delve in a more structured way in x86 assembly.While my knowledge in C is quite well established, the the assemlby/C blending was a plus.So why only two stars?The book starts with numbers, decimal, binary and hexadecimal. The discussion start very simple but soon the text is criptic and lack any detailed explanation leaving the reader alone in understanding the examples, poorly explained.Then you’ll arrive at x86 architecture and the book leave out any advancement made in the last 20 years (not even a few lines of text) with half said info and leaving you with more questions then answers. No hyper-threading, multicore, parallelism. Just to give an hint to the reader.The you arrive at the regitsters, named in a confusing way: general registers, Stack register, instruction registers… they are named, without a clear table, a clear distinction, their purpose and, seeing the book is from 2013, just a half line of text hinting about 64bit registers (what are they, only Intel knows…).At the addressing memory chapter the same fogging writing, with so and so examples, leaving you trying to discern if the regisers selected from the examples are general purpose or they have specifc meanings for the machine.For the rest of the chatpers I’ll wait to read them and then I’ll update my review.As a closing comment I had to download the Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual (free on intel site) to be able to fill the big gaps leaved by the book reading.For the price, the book is miss.P.S. I’ve searched the book for hints on interrupt. Well, I don’t know if what I have found is all or there are hidden sections, but it’s heavily lacking.

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