Book Recommendations

[jal]

On the other side I've got to see who owns a XT these days

I do, it was my very first computer. Still up and running, although the original HDD broke (but I got a replacement, the same Seagate ST-157A, iirc).


JAL

[rutix]

i need a good book on topic "integrating asm with C"....

any suggestion?

thanks

btw great forum

[AJ]

Hi,

You may just want to Google for the System V ABI.

Cheers,
Adam

[thre3dee]

I found this online book its only around ~200 pages, but its very good, and a new version was released only a few days ago!! its about asm... http://www.drpaulcarter.com/pcasm/

PS: how come I have only just found out about the GS and FS registers (and from this book)!! geez people!!

Wow, thanks! This book is just what I need! And its free

[kilobyte]

Inside the Machine by Jon stokes...just wondering if anybody has read it, looks promising

[kop99]

How about "Operating System Concepts 7th edition" by Silberschatz Galvin and "Understanding the Linux Kernel"...

[chase]

The "Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System" book is now free to view online. http://www.ipdatacorp.com/mmurtl.html

[UbarDPS]

It's downloadable also. The site hosting it doesn't even validate information so you can give them jibberish info and download it. Takes about 10 seconds to input this jibberish information.

Thanks for that heads up!

[01000101]

"The Software Optimization Cookbook: High-performance Recipes for the Intel Architecture" authored by Richard Gerber and published by Intel Press. Excellent book with a very high level description of how P3/P4 processors execute code. It has plenty of examples and real-world references. It's fairly current, it includes a ton of SSE/FPU optimizations and it gives a ton of optimization algorithms for high-performance tweaking. I got it for like a dollar used on Amazon.

[brodeur235]

Assembly Language For Intel Based Computers 5th ed, by Kip R. Irvine. Awsome assembly textbook. Teaches architecturs, in-depth asm using masm for examples, win32 CLI programming, win32 GUI programming, interfacing with high level languages, 16-bit DOS programming, Disk Fundamentals (very helpful if you're making an os. this part describes disk storage systems, file systems -fat12,16,32,NTFS-, disk directory, reading/writing disk sectors,
etc), BIOS level programming, and FPU instructions. This book has it all

Brodeur235

[PhaseR]

Inside the Machine by Jon stokes...just wondering if anybody has read it, looks promising

I have this book and I've red parts of it. It basically explains how various processors are designed. It discusses Intel processors including core 2 duo and PowerPCs.

This book talks about concepts like:

* pipelined execution
* out of order execution
* caching concepts
* multicore processors
* theory about processor design

If you're new to all these concepts then this book is great. If you want more details or programming details then you have to look somewhere else. This book discusses only architecture related stuff and various design decisions in microprocessors and their implications.

You can take a look at the table of contents and the sample chapter to have an idea on the style of the book. sample chapter

[karampin]

It's downloadable also. The site hosting it doesn't even validate information so you can give them jibberish info and download it. Takes about 10 seconds to input this jibberish information.

Thanks for that heads up!

I can't get it, could you pass me the link or send it here somehow ?
Thanks

[tsp]

Symbian OS Internals book is now available online via:

http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index ... _Internals

Content:
1. Introducing EKA2
2. Hardware for Symbian OS
3. Threads, Processes and Libraries
4. Inter-thread Communication
5. Kernel Services
6. Interrupts and Exceptions
7. Memory Models
8. Platform Security
9. The File Server
10. The Loader
11. The Window Server
12. Device Drivers and Extensions
13. Peripheral Support
14. Kernel-Side Debug
15. Power Management
16. Boot Processes
17. Real Time
18. Ensuring Performance

[Nathan]

Hello,
For the Brazilians like me, here is my recommendation: http://editoraerica.com/buscafinal.asp?cod=0379


Fundamentos em Programação Assembly

Thanks,
Nathan Paulino Campos

[Srowen]

How about "Operating System Concepts 7th edition" by Silberschatz Galvin

i've got this book and i like it very much..