Introduction to Assembly Language Programming

I Introductory Topics.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Basic Computer Organization.- 3 Overview of Assembly Language.- II Basic Topics.- 4 Procedures and the Stack.- 5 Addressing Modes.- 6 Arithmetic Flags and Instructions.- 7 Selection and Iteration.- 8 Logical and Bit Operations.- III Advanced Topics.- 9 String Processing.- 10 Macros and Conditional Assembly.- 11 ASCII and BCD Arithmetic.- 12 Interrupts and Input/Output.- 13 High-Level Language Interface.- IV Appendices.- A Internal Data Representation.- A.1 Positional Number Systems.- A.1.1 Notation.- A.2 Number Systems Conversion.- A.2.1 Conversion to Decimal.- A.2.2 Conversion from Decimal.- A.2.3 Conversion among Binary, Octal, and Hexadecimal.- A.3 Unsigned Integer Representation.- A.3.1 Arithmetic on Unsigned Integers.- A.4 Signed Integer Representation.- A.4.1 Signed-Magnitude Representation.- A.4.2 Excess-M Representation.- A.4.3 l's Complement Representation.- A.4.4 2's Complement Representation.- A.5 Floating-Point Representation.- A.5.1 Fractions.- A.5.2 Representing Floating-Point Numbers.- A.5.3 Floating-Point Representation.- A.6 Character Representation.- A.7 Summary.- A.8 Exercises.- A.9 Progamming Exercises.- B Assembling and Linking Assembly Language Programs.- B. 1 Structure of Assembly Language Programs.- B.2 Input/Output Routines.- B.3 Assembling and Linking.- B.3.1 The Assembly Process.- B.3.2 Linking Object Files.- B.4 Summary.- B.5 Exercises.- B.6 Progamming Exercises.- C Debugging Assembly Language Programs.- C.1 Strategies to Debug Assembly Language Programs.- C.2 DEBUG.- C.2.1 Miscellaneous Group.- C.2.2 An Example.- C.3 Turbo Debugger TD.- C.4 CodeView.- C.5 Summary.- C.6 Exercises.- C.7 Progamming Exercises.- D Pentium Instruction Set.- D.1 Pentium Instruction Format.- D.1.1 Instruction Prefixes.-D.1.2 General Instruction Format.- D.2 Selected Pentium Instructions.- E ASCII Character Set.