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Mastering Assembly Programming

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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

2. Setting Up a Development Environment FREE CHAPTER

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

GNU Assembler (GAS)

The GNU Assembler or GAS, or simply AS, is the most used assembler on *nix (Unix and Linux) platforms. While it is cross-platform (having the right build of GAS, we can compile Assembly code for a wide variety of platforms including Windows), flexible and powerful, it defaults to the AT&T syntax, which is, for those used to Intel syntax, weird, to say the least. GAS is free software released under the terms of GNU General Public License v3.

Installing GAS

GAS is distributed as part of the binutils package, but since it is the default backend for GCC (GNU Compilers Collection), it would be better if we install GCC. In fact, installing GCC instead of binutils alone will slightly simplify the creation...

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Authors (1)

Alexey Lyashko

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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