Assembly programming
Syllabus
Classes (Fall semester)
Requirements
- Proficiency in C programming language is needed.
- Students must not miss more than 3 classes in the semester.
- Students must not late more than 20 minutes from classes. In the opposite case the student is registered as being absent from the class (however (s)he is still allowed to stay in the class).
- 1 test (+1 retake) during the semester.
- The only one retake possibility covers the whole semester overwrites all previous results.
- Passing a test: reaching at least 50%.
Materials
- Slides about required precognitions
- Lecturenote (updated: 2 September 2024)
- The effect of CMP instruction to EFLAGS register
- Calling function in assembly
- List of necessary instructions
- Detailed description of assembly instructions
- Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual
Sample codes
- The skeleton
- Constant
- Addition and subtraction
- Multiplication and division
- Bitwise operations
- Static (global) variable
- Expression
- Comparison
- The while and for loops
- The do-while loop
- The continue instruction
- The break instruction in loop
- The if-else structure
- Ternary operator
- The switch structure
- The break instruction in switch
- Logical operators
- Pointer
- Static (global) array
- Record
- The #define instruction
- Stack
- Dynamic (local) variable
- Dynamic (local) array
- Procedure
- Function
- Parameter passing (few parameters)
- Parameter passing (many parameters)
- Recursion
- Multiple compilation unit A
- Multiple compilation unit B
- Header file
- Constant string
- The printf function
- Local string
- The scanf function
- Real (floating-point) values
- Commandline arguments
- Output by interrupt A
- Output by interrupt B
- Compilation of C into assembly
- Conversion of executable into assembly (and machine code)
- Profiling
- Sorting
- Efficiency
- Optimizing compilation
- Inline assembly in C
- ARM assembly
Final exam
Readings:
- R. E. Bryant, D. R. O’Hallaron: Computer Systems – A programmer’s perspective (Pearson, 2016)
- Joseph Cavanagh: X86 Assembly Language and C Fundamentals, (CRC Press, 2013)
- Richard Blum: Professional Assemby Language, (Wiley, 2005)
- Ray Seyfarth: Introduction to 64 bit assembly programming for Linux and OS X, (Amazon, 2013)
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Updated: 31/08/2026 |