6.6 For More Information

This chapter has spent considerable time discussing how the CPU organizes memory and how the CPU accesses memory. There are a couple of good sources of additional information on this subject.

My book The Art of Assembly Language (No Starch Press), or nearly any other textbook on assembly language programming, will provide additional information about CPU addressing modes, allocating and accessing local (automatic) variables , and manipulating parameters at the machine code level. Any decent textbook on programming language design or compiler design will have lots to say about the run-time organization of memory for typical compiled languages.

A good computer architecture textbook is another place you'll find information on system organization. Patterson and Hennessy's architecture books Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware/Software Interface and Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach are well-regarded textbooks you might consider reading to gain a more in-depth perspective on CPU and system design.

Chapter 11 in this book also provides additional information about cache memory and memory architecture.