Professional Assembly Language

by Richard Blum

Unlike high-level languages such as Java and C++, assembly language is much closer to the machine code that actually runs computers; it's used to create programs or modules that are very fast and efficient, as well as in hacking exploits and reverse engineering Covering assembly language in the Pentium microprocessor environment, this code-intensive guide shows programmers how to create stand-alone assembly language programs as well as how to incorporate assembly language libraries or routines into existing high-level applications Demonstrates how to manipulate data, incorporate advanced functions and libraries, and maximize application performance Examples use C as a high-level language, Linux as the development environment, and GNU tools for assembling, compiling, linking, and debugging

Genres: Programming, Computer Science, Software, Computers

576 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2005

Reviews

[mirabilos]

The assembly introduction is rudimentary, omitting detailled (and, in the case of the optimisation chapter, even important) information, nor does it really help actually using the tools (such as gdb) beyond a synopsis (which is short enough to be completely useless in practice). It also endorses and uses AT&T syntax, which is a no-go for i386 (and some other) architectures.

If I remembered who recommended it to me, I’d enlighten them otherwise…

[Plamen]

It was very good book which covered the basics of assembly language and linux programming interface. It is the only book I know that inspects assembly language in linux environment.

[Hamid Raza]

Very helpful and covers all the aspects of the assembly language and its applications in other languages. Surprisingly, It didn't bore me :)

[Denis]

Quite a nice book for learning assembly in the Linux environment.

[Alborz Jafari]

Very helpful, it also covers Linux api and useful information about CPU, static and shared libraries in linux, using assembly inside c/c++ programs, etc...

[Milad Khajavi]

این کتاب هم ترجمه‌اش یکی دو سال پیش اومد تو بازار
دیر متوجه شدم :((
اکثر کتاب‌های اسمبلی قدیمی هست و با mnemonicهای کامپیوترهای قدیمی آموزش داده‌اند.
اما خوبی این کتاب این هست که با مجموعه کامپایلر gcc کار می‌کنه. مخصوص بچه‌هایی که با لینوکس کار می‌کنند و می‌خواهند اسمبلی را یاد بگیرند.
حتا یک فصل از کتاب در مورد ارتباط با System Callهای لینوکس هست. جهت برقراری ارتباط با سیستم‌عامل