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Assembly question

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I'm reading the book "Programming from the Ground Up" by Jonathan Barlett. The problem is that it's for Linux and I'm using Mac OS X. The assembly examples that come in the book won't assemble. Is there a way I can test Linux assembly in Mac?

Edit: Sorry, I forgot to put an apropiate title. It should have been "Linux assembly in Mac OS X".
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Hi,
no_one wrote:I'm reading the book "Programming from the Ground Up" by Jonathan Barlett. The problem is that it's for Linux and I'm using Mac OS X. The assembly examples that come in the book won't assemble. Is there a way I can test Linux assembly in Mac?
It should be possible to dual boot OS X and Linux. If that's too much of a pain in the neck, try an emulator (Bochs, Qemu, Parallel, Virtual PC, VMware, etc).


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Re: Assembly question

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Brendan wrote:Hi,
no_one wrote:I'm reading the book "Programming from the Ground Up" by Jonathan Barlett. The problem is that it's for Linux and I'm using Mac OS X. The assembly examples that come in the book won't assemble. Is there a way I can test Linux assembly in Mac?
It should be possible to dual boot OS X and Linux. If that's too much of a pain in the neck, try an emulator (Bochs, Qemu, Parallel, Virtual PC, VMware, etc).


Cheers,

Brendan
As an alternative to that round-about way, and from what I understand about OS X being based on BSD, you could take your linux programming knowledge and apply it by reading BSD programming. They should be quite similar and may allow you to write natively to your system.
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Well, if he's using a PPC Mac, then the book would be completely useless...
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niteice wrote:Well, if he's using a PPC Mac, then the book would be completely useless...
Nice catch of something basic that should have been stated :)
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Well, if he's using a PPC Mac, then the book would be completely useless...
I would not say useless.

Brendan, stated implicitly that using a port of BOCHS (The Portable X86 Emulator) would allow him to boot Linux(X86) hosted on a PPC machine which could allow him to do what he would like to do. http://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docboo ... iling.html

Also it should not be referred to as Linux Assembly, but rather as IA32/X86 Assembly On Linux.
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It's an Intel iMac. No problem, I installed Ubuntu 7.0.4 in Q and my code works perfectly. Just one thing, I can't save any files. I mean I can but when I reboot they disappear. But probably this doesn't go in this forum.
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I think this night help with mac osx asm http://developer.apple.com/documentatio ... ion_1.html
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