The Art of 64-Bit Assembly: x86-64 Machine Organization and Programming (Early Release - RAW & UNEDITED)

Description

Randall Hyde's The Art of Assembly Language has been the go-to book for learning assembly language for decades. Hyde's latest work, Art of 64-bit Assembly Language is the 64-bit version of this popular text. This book guides you through the maze of assembly language programming by showing how to write assembly code that mimics operations in High-Level Languages. This leverages your HLL knowledge to rapidly understand x86-64 assembly language. This new work uses the Microsoft Macro Assembler (MASM), the most popular x86-64 assembler today. Hyde covers the standard integer set, as well as the x87 FPU, SIMD parallel instructions, SIMD scalar instructions (including high-performance floating-point instructions), and MASM's very powerful macro facilities. You'll learn in detail: how to implement high-level language data and control structures in assembly language; how to write parallel algorithms using the SIMD (single-instruction, multiple-data) instructions on the x86-64; and how to write stand alone assembly programs and assembly code to link with HLL code. You'll also learn how to optimize certain algorithms in assembly to produce faster code. Part I: Machine Organization Chapter 1: Hello, World of Assembly Language Chapter 2: Computer Data Representation and Operations Chapter 3: Memory Access and Organization Chapter 4: Constants, Variables, and Data Types Part II: Assembly Language Programming Chapter 5: Procedures Chapter 6: Arithmetic Chapter 7: Low-Level Control Structures Chapter 8: Advanced Arithmetic Chapter 9: Numeric Conversion Chapter 10: Table Lookups