View source for Fall 2014 SPO600 Assembly Language Presentation

{{Chris Tyler Draft}}

== Topics ==

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|x86 Registers||What are the names and sizes of all of the x86_64 registers?||
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|Aarch64 Registers||What are the names and sizes of all of the Aarch64 registers?||
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|NASM Syntax||What is NASM, and what are the basic rules of NASM syntax?||
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|GNU x86_64 gas Syntax||What are the basic rules of GNU Assembler (gas) syntax for x86_64 platforms?||
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|GNU aarch64 Syntax||What are the basic rules of GNU Assembler (gas) syntax for aarch64 platforms?||
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|Argument storage on x86_64||When a function/procedure is called on an x86_64 Linux system, where are the arguments stored?||
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|Argument storage on aarch64||When a function/procedure is called on an aarch64 system, where are the arguments stored?||
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|System call numbers on x86_64||What are the system call numbers on an x86_64 Linux system?||
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|System call numbers on aarch64||What are the system call numbers on an aarch64 Linux system?||
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|PLT||What is a PLT and how is it used?||
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|Static and dynamic linking||What are the differences between static and dynamic linking? Advantages of each?||
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|Copy-on-write||What is copy-on-write (when referring to memory in a Linux system)? When is it used?||
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|Assembling using gas||How do you use the GNU assembler (gas) to compile an assembly-language program?||
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|The Mysterious XOR||x86 and x86_64 code often contains instructions that XOR a register with itself (e.g., <code>xor %eax,%eax</code>). What does this do and why is it used?||
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