Assembly Language Programming for Microcomputers

Tak Auyeung, Ph.D.

• 20050829 0051 TA: Added section 4.4, and modified 4.5
• 20050130 2101 TA: Added section 4.5 for more methods to allocate memory.
• 20041129 0113 TA: project 4 is finally assigned!
• 20041028 1026 TA: inserted .text into the provided code of project 3, updated makefile to handle multiple dependency file
• 20041027 0045 TA: Project 3 is now available. Read the chapter on project 3.
• 20041022 1000 TA: updated the pseudocode and fixed some errors, postponed the due date of project 2 by three days
• 20041010 2239 TA: changed wordlen to be 32-bit instead of 8-bit (easier to use for index register, not 100% necessary). Also, added a new clue/hint section at the end of the description of project 2.
• 20041008 1118 TA: added more help at the end of the description of project 2. Fixed the pseudocode to handle spaces, fixed the template code (use # and not $ for comment, line 10 of the template code). Added a section about end-of-file detection. Added another section to use file redirection in gdb.
• 20041008 0209 TA: added project 2 (after subroutine chapter), includes very simple way to submit programs directly from linux3!
• 20041001 1014 TA: added command line method to submit project1 (at the end of the project 1 description)
• 20040926 2330 TA: updated project 1 for 2004 Fall class
• 20040815 2210 TA: get ready for Fall semester! Remove Cygwin stuff (it doesn't work well enough) and move online account stuff up
• 20040122 2136 TA: fixed installation procedure to work in the lab
• 20040121 2356 TA: fixed sample code end sequence to properly exit a program
• 20040121 2314 TA: add new chapter for basic x86 information (registers, addrressing modes, the mov instruction)
• 20040119 2348 TA: add exercise to use the tool chain
• 20040119 0118 TA: add chapter to install Cygwin
• 20040114 1241 TA: first chapter is now written!