Professional Assembly Language

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Professional Assembly Language is written by Richard Blum and published by John Wiley & Sons. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 076459561X (ISBN 10) and 9780764595615 (ISBN 13).

Unlike high-level languages such as Java and C++, assemblylanguage is much closer to the machine code that actually runscomputers; it's used to create programs or modules that are veryfast and efficient, as well as in hacking exploits and reverseengineering Covering assembly language in the Pentium microprocessorenvironment, this code-intensive guide shows programmers how tocreate stand-alone assembly language programs as well as how toincorporate assembly language libraries or routines into existinghigh-level applications Demonstrates how to manipulate data, incorporate advancedfunctions and libraries, and maximize application performance Examples use C as a high-level language, Linux as thedevelopment environment, and GNU tools for assembling, compiling,linking, and debugging