The Art of Assembly Language
The Art of Assembly Language
ISBN: 1593272073
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 246
Pages: 246
Authors: Randall Hyde
- Table of Contents
- BackCover
- The Art of Assembly Language
- Chapter 1: Hello, World of Assembly Language
- 1.2 The Anatomy of an HLA Program
- 1.3 Running Your First HLA Program
- 1.4 Some Basic HLA Data Declarations
- 1.5 Boolean Values
- 1.6 Character Values
- 1.7 An Introduction to the Intel 80x86 CPU Family
- 1.8 Some Basic Machine Instructions
- 1.9 Some Basic HLA Control Structures
- 1.10 Introduction to the HLA Standard Library
- 1.11 Additional Details About TRY..ENDTRY
- 1.12 High Level Assembly Language vs. Low Level Assembly
- 1.13 For More Information
- Chapter 2: Data Representation
- 2.2 Numbering Systems
- 2.3 The Hexadecimal Numbering System
- 2.4 Data Organization
- 2.5 Arithmetic Operations on Binary and Hexadecimal Numbers
- 2.6 A Note About Numbers vs. Representation
- 2.7 Logical Operations on Bits
- 2.8 Logical Operations on Binary Numbers and Bit Strings
- 2.9 Signed and Unsigned Numbers
- 2.10 Sign Extension, Zero Extension, Contraction, and Saturation
- 2.11 Shifts and Rotates
- 2.12 Bit Fields and Packed Data
- 2.13 An Introduction to Floating Point Arithmetic
- 2.14 Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) Representation
- 2.15 Characters
- 2.16 The Unicode Character Set
- 2.17 For More Information
- Chapter 3: Memory Access and Organization
- 3.2 The 80x86 Addressing Modes
- 3.3 Run-Time Memory Organization
- 3.4 How HLA Allocates Memory for Variables
- 3.5 HLA Support for Data Alignment
- 3.6 Address Expressions
- 3.7 Type Coercion
- 3.8 Register Type Coercion
- 3.9 The Stack Segment and the PUSH and POP Instructions
- 3.10 Dynamic Memory Allocation and the Heap Segment
- 3.11 The INC and DEC Instructions
- 3.12 Obtaining the Address of a Memory Object
- 3.13 For More Information
- Chapter 4: Constants, Variables, and Data Types
- 4.2 Some Additional Instructions: INTMUL, BOUND, INTO
- 4.3 The TBYTE Data Types
- 4.4 HLA Constant and Value Declarations
- 4.5 The HLA TYPE Section
- 4.6 ENUM and HLA Enumerated Data Types
- 4.7 Pointer Data Types
- 4.8 The HLA Standard Library CHARS.HHF Module
- 4.9 Composite Data Types
- 4.10 Character Strings
- 4.11 HLA Strings
- 4.12 Accessing the Characters Within a String
- 4.13 The HLA String Module and Other String-Related Routines
- 4.14 In-Memory Conversions
- 4.15 Character Sets
- 4.16 Character Set Implementation in HLA
- 4.17 HLA Character Set Constants and Character Set Expressions
- 4.18 The IN Operator in HLA HLL Boolean Expressions
- 4.19 Character Set Support in the HLA Standard Library
- 4.20 Using Character Sets in Your HLA Programs
- 4.21 Arrays
- 4.22 Declaring Arrays in Your HLA Programs
- 4.23 HLA Array Constants
- 4.24 Accessing Elements of a Single Dimension Array
- 4.25 Multidimensional Arrays
- 4.26 Allocating Storage for Multidimensional Arrays
- 4.27 Accessing Multidimensional Array Elements in Assembly Language
- 4.28 Large Arrays and MASM (Windows Programmers Only)
- 4.29 Records
- 4.30 Record Constants
- 4.31 Arrays of Records
- 4.32 ArraysRecords as Record Fields
- 4.33 Controlling Field Offsets Within a Record
- 4.34 Aligning Fields Within a Record
- 4.35 Pointers to Records
- 4.36 Unions
- 4.37 Anonymous Unions
- 4.38 Variant Types
- 4.39 Union Constants
- 4.40 Namespaces
- 4.41 Dynamic Arrays in Assembly Language
- 4.42 HLA Standard Library Array Support
- 4.43 For More Information
- Chapter 5: Procedures and Units
- 5.2 Procedures
- 5.3 Saving the State of the Machine
- 5.4 Prematurely Returning from a Procedure
- 5.5 Local Variables
- 5.6 Other Local and Global Symbol Types
- 5.7 Parameters
- 5.8 Functions and Function Results
- 5.9 Recursion
- 5.10 Forward Procedures
- 5.11 Low Level Procedures and the CALL Instruction
- 5.12 Procedures and the Stack
- 5.13 Activation Records
- 5.14 The Standard Entry Sequence
- 5.15 The Standard Exit Sequence
- 5.16 Low Level Implementation of Automatic (Local) Variables
- 5.17 Low Level Parameter Implementation
- 5.18 Procedure Pointers
- 5.19 Procedure Parameters
- 5.20 Untyped Reference Parameters
- 5.21 Managing Large Programs
- 5.22 The INCLUDE Directive
- 5.23 Ignoring Duplicate INCLUDE Operations
- 5.24 UNITs and the EXTERNAL Directive
- 5.25 Namespace Pollution
- 5.26 For More Information
- Chapter 6: Arithmetic
- 6.2 80x86 Integer Arithmetic Instructions
- 6.3 Arithmetic Expressions
- 6.4 Logical (Boolean) Expressions
- 6.5 Machine and Arithmetic Idioms
- 6.6 Floating Point Arithmetic
- 6.7 Converting Floating Point Expressions to Assembly Language
- 6.8 HLA Standard Library Support for Floating Point Arithmetic
- 6.9 Putting It All Together
- Chapter 7: Low Level Control Structures
- 7.2 Low Level Control Structures
- 7.3 Statement Labels
- 7.4 Unconditional Transfer of Control (JMP)
- 7.5 The Conditional Jump Instructions
- 7.6 Medium Level Control Structures: JT and JF
- 7.7 Implementing Common Control Structures in Assembly Language
- 7.8 Introduction to Decisions
- 7.9 State Machines and Indirect Jumps
- 7.10 Spaghetti Code
- 7.11 Loops
- 7.12 Performance Improvements
- 7.13 Hybrid Control Structures in HLA
- 7.14 For More Information
- Chapter 8: Files
- 8.2 File Organization
- 8.3 Sequential Files
- 8.4 Random Access Files
- 8.5 ISAM (Indexed Sequential Access Method) Files
- 8.6 Truncating a File
- 8.7 For More Information
- Chapter 9: Advanced Arithmetic
- 9.2 Multiprecision Operations
- 9.3 Operating on Different-Sized Operands
- 9.4 Decimal Arithmetic
- 9.5 Tables
- 9.6 For More Information
- Chapter 10: Macros and the HLA Compile Time Language
- 10.2 Introduction to the Compile Time Language (CTL)
- 10.3 The PRINT and ERROR Statements
- 10.4 Compile Time Constants and Variables
- 10.5 Compile Time Expressions and Operators
- 10.6 Compile Time Functions
- 10.7 Conditional Compilation (Compile Time Decisions)
- 10.8 Repetitive Compilation (Compile Time Loops)
- 10.9 Macros (Compile Time Procedures)
- 10.10 Writing Compile Time Programs
- 10.11 Using Macros in Different Source Files
- 10.12 For More Information
- Chapter 11: BIT Manipulation
- 11.2 What Is Bit Data, Anyway?
- 11.3 Instructions That Manipulate Bits
- 11.4 The Carry Flag as a Bit Accumulator
- 11.5 Packing and Unpacking Bit Strings
- 11.6 Coalescing Bit Sets and Distributing Bit Strings
- 11.7 Packed Arrays of Bit Strings
- 11.8 Searching for a Bit
- 11.9 Counting Bits
- 11.10 Reversing a Bit String
- 11.11 Merging Bit Strings
- 11.12 Extracting Bit Strings
- 11.13 Searching for a Bit Pattern
- 11.14 The HLA Standard Library Bits Module
- 11.15 For More Information
- Chapter 12: The String Instructions
- 12.2 The 80x86 String Instructions
- 12.3 Performance of the 80x86 String Instructions
- 12.4 For More Information
- Chapter 13: The MMX Instruction Set
- 13.2 Determining Whether a CPU Supports the MMX Instruction Set
- 13.3 The MMX Programming Environment
- 13.4 The Purpose of the MMX Instruction Set
- 13.5 Saturation Arithmetic and Wrap-Around Mode
- 13.6 MMX Instruction Operands
- 13.7 MMX Technology Instructions
- 13.8 The MMX Programming Paradigm
- 13.9 For More Information
- Chapter 14: Classes and Objects
- 14.2 General Principles
- 14.3 Classes in HLA
- 14.4 Objects
- 14.5 Inheritance
- 14.6 Overriding
- 14.7 Virtual Methods vs. Static Procedures
- 14.8 Writing Class Methods and Procedures
- 14.9 Object Implementation
- 14.10 Constructors and Object Initialization
- 14.11 Destructors
- 14.12 HLA s _initialize_ and _finalize_ Strings
- 14.13 Abstract Methods
- 14.14 Run-Time Type Information (RTTI)
- 14.15 Calling Base Class Methods
- 14.16 For More Information
- Chapter 15: Mixed Language Programming
- 15.2 Mixing HLA and MASMGas Code in the Same Program
- 15.3 Programming in DelphiKylix and HLA
- 15.4 Programming in CC and HLA
- 15.5 For More Information
- Appendix A: ASCII Character Set
- Appendix B: The 80 86 Instruction Set
- Index
- Index_Numbers
- Index_A
- Index_B
- Index_C
- Index_D
- Index_E
- Index_F
- Index_G
- Index_H
- Index_I
- Index_J-K
- Index_L
- Index_M
- Index_N
- Index_O
- Index_P
- Index_Q
- Index_R
- Index_S
- Index_T
- Index_U
- Index_V
- Index_W
- Index_X
- Index_Y
- Index_Z
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
- CD Content
The Art of Assembly Language
ISBN: 1593272073
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 246
Pages: 246
Authors: Randall Hyde