You're reading from Mastering Assembly Programming From instruction set to kernel module with Intel processor

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787287488

Length 290 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Assembly

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Alexey Lyashko

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Intel Architecture FREE CHAPTER

2. Setting Up a Development Environment

3. Intel Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)

4. Memory Addressing Modes

5. Parallel Data Processing

6. Macro Instructions

7. Data Structures

8. Mixing Modules Written in Assembly and Those Written in High-Level Languages

9. Operating System Interface

10. Patching Legacy Code

11. Oh, Almost Forgot

Addressing data

Data addressing modes are the same as those for code addressing, with the exception of IP-based addressing on 32-bit systems.

Sequential addressing

Yes, this is not a typo, there is sequential addressing when it comes to addressing data as well, although it does require certain setup.

Remember the RSI/RDI pair (or ESI/EDI for 32-bit systems), which we have mentioned in both Chapter 1, Intel Architecture, and Chapter 3, Intel Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). This pair is a good example of sequential data addressing, where the source and/or target addresses are incremented or decremented (depending on the value of the direction flag) automatically after each instruction that uses these registers (either one...

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Authors (1)

Alexey Lyashko

Alexey Lyashko is an Assembly language addict, independent software reverse engineer, and consultant. At the very beginning of his career, when he was a malware researcher at Aladdin Knowledge Systems, he invented and developed a generic code recognition method known as HOFA™. After spending a few years in the anti-malware industry and gaining sufficient experience in low-level development and reverse engineering, Alexey switched to content protection and worked as a reverse engineering consultant with Irdeto's BD+ department, actively participating in content protection technology development. Since 2013, he has worked with several software development companies providing reverse engineering and low-level software development consultancy.

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