Assembly Language Step-by-Step - Programming with DOS and Linux

Table of Contents

Assembly Language Step-by-Step—Programming with DOS and Linux, Second

Edition

Foreword

Introduction - "Why Would You Want to Do That?"

Chapter 1 - Another Pleasant Valley Saturday Understanding What Computers

Really Do

Chapter 2 - Alien Bases Getting Your Arms around Binary and Hexadecimal

Chapter 3 - Lifting the Hood Discovering What Computers Actually Are

Chapter 4 - The Right to Assemble The Process of Making Assembly Language

Programs

Chapter 5 - NASM-IDE: A Place to Stand Give me a lever long enough, and a

place to stand, and I will move the Earth.

Chapter 6 - An Uneasy Alliance The x86 CPU and Its Segmented Memory

System

Chapter 7 - Following Your Instructions Meeting Machine Instructions up Close

and Personal

Chapter 8 - Our Object All Sublime Creating Programs that Work

Chapter 9 - Dividing and Conquering Using Procedures and Macros to Battle

Complexity

Chapter 10 - Bits, Flags, Branches, and Tables Easing into Mainstream

Assembly Programming

Chapter 11 - Stringing Them Up Those Amazing String Instructions

Chapter 12 - The Programmer's View of Linux Tools and Skills to Help You Write

Assembly Code under a True 32-Bit OS

Chapter 13 - Coding for Linux Applying What You've Learned to a True

Protected Mode Operating System

Conclusion - Not the End, But Only the Beginning

Appendix A - Partial 8086/8088 Instruction Set Reference

Appendix B - Segment Register Assumptions for Real Mode Segmented Model

Appendix C - Web URLs for Assembly Programmers

Appendix D - Segment Register Assumptions

Appendix E - What's on the CD-ROM?

Index

List of Figures

List of Tables