Guide to Assembly Language Programming in Linux
Sivarama P. Dandamudi
Language: English
Pages: 545
ISBN: 0387258973
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Introduces Linux concepts to programmers who are familiar with other operating systems such as Windows XP
Provides comprehensive coverage of the Pentium assembly language
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information on how you can get help if you run into installation problems. Introduction This chapter describes the Fedora Core 3 Linux operating system installation process. The book comes with two DVD-ROMs. The first DVD-ROM (DVD 1) contains the complete Fedora 3 distribution. It is a copy of the distribution available at the Red Hat's Fedora Web site (www. f e d o r a . r e d h a t . com). The second DVD-ROM (DVD 2) contains the source code and CD-ROM images. If you have a DVD-ROM drive, you
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assembly language programs carefully, they tend to run faster than their high-level language counterparts. As an aside, we can also define a third objective: how fast a program can be developed (i.e., write code and debug). This objective is related to the programmer productivity, and assembly language loses the battle to high-level languages as discussed in the last section. The superiority of assembly language in generating compact code is becoming increasingly less important for several
of the pseudocode even before you attempt to translate it into the assembly language program. This is a good way of catching many of the logical errors and saves a lot of debugging time. Never write an assembly language code with the pseudo-code in your head! Furthermore, don't be in a hurry to write assembly language code that appears to work. This is short sighted, as we end up spending more time in the debugging phase. To isolate a bug, program execution should be observed in slow motion. Most