Assembly Language for the IBM PC Family

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ISBN: 9781576760581 | 1576760588
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Copyright: 10/2/2000

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This textbook teaches useful programming techniques. It was developed so that the order and presentation of material is determined by pedagogical necessity. Important but difficult concepts are delayed until the reader has a sound grasp of the fundamentals and these more advanced concepts are actually needed. Constant and exhaustive reinforcement ensures that readers thoroughly understand the concepts presented. The author's extensive set of exercises, with answers, tests the student's grasp of what is happening in the machine on a nuts and bolts level.

Preliminaries
Hardware Overview
Level I: General Properties of Personal Computers
Level II: IBM PC Hardware
More on Memory (Optional)
The Decimal, Binary, and Hexadecimal Numbering Systems
The Binary Number System
Conversions between Binary and Decimal
The Hexadecimal Number System
Conversions Involving Hexadecimal
Addition in Binary and Hex
Negative Numbers; 2's Complement Arithmetic
Sign-Magnitude Representation
1's Complement Representation
2's Complement Representation
The ASCII Character Set
Pseudo-Code
Assembler Overview
Creating an Assembly Language Program
Structure of an IBM PC Assembly Language Program
Global Program Structure
The .STACK Segment
The .DATA Segment
The .CODE Segment
More on I/O
Macros for I/O
The DOS Display Character Call
Magic Numbers
Numeric I/O
Arithmetic
Addition and Subtraction
Multiplication and Division
Comments on Comments
A Little Something Extra: Timing of Instructions (completely new)
Internal Format of Instructions (Optional)
Introduction to Debuggers
Comparing and Branching
Decision-making in Assembly Language
Unsigned Conditional Jumps
Arithmetic and the Flags
Counting Loops (important revision)
Reading Single Characters
Loop Case Studies
Some Technical Details on Compares and Jumps
Timing of Instructions, Continued
Debugging with Breakpoints
Subprograms
Writing Subprograms
The Stack
The Stack, call, and ret
Separately Translated Subprograms
Creating Program Libraries (Optional)
How the Linker Works (Optional)
Procedures
Applying Assembly I: Numeric I/O
PutDec I: Displaying Unsigned Numbers
PutDec II: Turning PutUDec into PutDec
GetDec I: Reading a Number from the Keyboard
Writing Macros and Program Testing
Writing Simple Macros
Macro Declarations
Macro Expansion
Parameter Parentheses
Local Symbols
Parameter Separator (&)
Assembly Listings
An Extended Example: Programming Testing
Pseudo-Macros for Repetition
Bit Operations
Boolean Operations
Shift Operations (substantial revision)
An Application-Code to Implement PutHex
A Little Something Extra: Bit Instructions in High Level Languages
Assembler RECORD Structures (Optional)
Arrays
Addressing
Memory Address versus Memory Contents
Address Arithmetic
Types of Address Expressions
Rules for Address Expressions
Byte Swapping
Byte Swapping and Address Arithmetic (Optional)
Arrays
Arrays in General
Using Arrays
Reading a Whole Line from the Keyboard
A Little Something Extra: Indexing with Extended Registers (new in this position)
Arrays in High-Level Languages (Optional)
Arrays and Byte Swapping
Applying Assembly II: Array Applications
Conversion Tables
Sets (Substantially rewritten)
Representing Sets as Arrays
Searching Sets
An Application: The Sieve of Eratosthenes
PutDec III: Bin2Dec
C/C++/Java Variable Length Character Strings (completely new)
C/C++ switch and Pascal case Statements
Segments
Segments and Offsets
Segment Registers
Defining Segments (important new material)
The ASSUME Statement
The Program Segment Prefix (PSP)
A Little Something Extra: The Real Time Clock and Program Timing (mostly new)
A Little Something Extra: Pointers
A Little Something Extra: Memory Models (new material)
Segments
Procedures and High Level Languages
Procedures and the Stack (includes new material)
A Little Something Extra: Assembler Help with Procedures (includes new material)
A Little Something Extra: CPU Assistance with Procedures
A Little Something Extra: Reference Parameters (includes new material)
A Little Something Extra: Other C++ Features (all new)
Default Parameter values
Overloaded Functions
Polymorphic Calling of Virtual Functions
A Little Something Extra: Embedding Assembly in a High Level Language
Applying Assembly III: Multiple Precision and Decimal Arithmetic
Operations for Multiple Precision
Working with Multiple Precision Numbers
Random Numbers (substantially revised)
Decimal Arithmetic
Interrupts
Generalities about Interrupts
Interrupt Processing on the 80X86
Applications: Timing Operations and Debuggers
The Real Time Clock
Interrupts and Debuggers
Interrupt Handlers
A Little Something Extra: A TSR Program
A Little Something Extra: Simultaneously Executing Programs
Race Conditions
Semaphores: an Abstract Method of Synchronization
Using Semaphores to Solve Race Conditions
Implementing Semaphores to Solve Race Conditions
A Short History of Interrupts
Conditional Assembly and More on Macros
Generally Applicable IFs
IFs Usable Only in Macros (includes new material)
String Processing Instructions
The String Operations (includes new material)
The REP Instruction Prefix
File Processing
Handles and Opening, Creating, and Closing Files
Basic File Operations
Random File Accessing
The _LSeek Macro
Applications of _LSeek I: LOG, a Message Logger&n
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