Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 22:05:22 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos <jorgeassembler1@outlook.com> Subject: Re: Complete online course in assembly language of Randall Hyde's is really course in assembly language? Message-ID: <20140405020522.GA46258@jerrymc.net> In-Reply-To: <533F348D.9020503@tysdomain.com> References: <COL127-W31004E9F46A0D4237C14D6E86F0@phx.gbl> <533F348D.9020503@tysdomain.com>
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On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 06:39:09PM -0400, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: > On 4/4/2014 4:44 PM, Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos wrote: > > Complete online course in assembly language of Randall Hyde's is really > course in assembly language? > Is written in FreeBSD Developers' Handbook: > "This chapter does not explain the basics of assembly language.There are > enough resources about that (for a complete online course in assembly > language, see Randall Hyde's Art of Assembly Language;" > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/x86.html > > The biggest gripe I have with this book is that it teaches ?High Level > Assembly?, essentially an entirely different language from assembly, built > using assembly macros. It?s great maybe if you have no programming > experience what so ever?although even then I don?t know why you would learn > HLA instead of a real language. > Learning HLA instead of assembly is frustrating for learn the true Assembly. > Here in spite of the indication that this post was probably just a troll hit. That makes it good. The onlyt reasonable way to program in assembly is to make significant use of macros and once a reasonable set of macros are developed, one should no longer be using machine code except in some unusual circumstances. ////jerry
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