Re: Recommendations for Self-Instruction?


"Lee T." <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Please forgive me but I'm searching for the correct area to post such
an inquiry as this. I've worked extensively with C, C++ and have
experience with other higher level languages however, I am quite
interested in learning assembly for the x86 architecture and I just
don't know where to start; I've been searching for tutorials and books
and would like a push towards a direction to start.

I wish to learn a low-level asm independent of the OS layer, but I work
with FreeBSD so if it's Unix ASM I wouldn't mind.

Actually, I'm up to all sorts of suggestions, I don't have enough
working knowledge to speak, maybe after I get some sense from
someone... just trying to help myself learn something new and the
options seem endless... Books, tutorials, you name it.


None of these will teach you assembly, but they are good references.

GAS Assembly links:
http://www.ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/GCC-Inline-Assembly-HOWTO.html
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/brennan/brennan_att_inline_djgpp.html
http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/as/as_toc.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/manual/gas-2.9.1/html_chapter/as_16.html
http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/binutils/as_270.html

IA-32 instruction reference
http://www.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/rz/docs/VTune/reference/About_IA-32_Instructions.htm

Sandpile.org's IA-32 architecture
http://www.sandpile.org/ia32/

Agner Fog's Pentium Optimization chapter:
http://asdf.org/~fatphil/x86/pentopt/28.html

File Format links:
http://www.yeyan.cn/Programming/gcc-ld-compile-binary-formats.aspx
http://devpit.org/wiki/Compiler_Options_for_Creating_Odd_Binaries


Rod Pemberton


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