Chapter 3: Memory Access and Organization

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3.1 Chapter Overview

Earlier chapters in this text show you how to declare and access simple variables in an assembly language program. In this chapter you get the full picture on 80x86 memory access. You also learn how to efficiently organize your variable declarations to speed up access to their data. This chapter will also teach you about the 80x86 stack and how to manipulate data on the stack. Finally, this chapter will teach you about dynamic memory allocation and the heap.