Assembly & Machine Language (Fall 2019)

Introduction to Machine Language, Assembly Language and Applications

x86 Architecture, Processor History, Registers, 16bit, 32bit and 64 bit architectures and basic commands

Object files, Libraries, The compiler and the Linker

Compiling C to assembly

Linking assembly and C

Writing standalone assembly programs under linux

Linking assembly with C

Binary, decimal, hex and octal numbers, conversion between them

Signed integers, two's complement

Carry & Overflow, the FLAGS Register,

Extending bit size

Unconditional Jump, conditional jumps, comparisons

Signed and unsigned Comparisons, Loop instructions

Working with memory, implementing global variables

Little endian vs Big endian systems

Multiplication and Division

CPU clock & frequency, clock cycles, and instruction timing

Bit operations

Introduction to subprograms/functions

Indirect addressing, indirect jump

The stack, the stack segment, the stack pointer register (ESP), push and pop commands

Argument passing,

call and ret commands

indirect call, implementing pointers to functions

Calling conventions, calling conventions in C

Implementing local variables on stack

The base register (EBP)

Modular Programming in C and assembly

Interfacing assembly with C

Recursion

The C Preprocessor and Macros

Netwide assembler Macros and Preprocessor

Calling software interrupts

System Calls

Implementing arrays

General indirect addressing

Load Effective Address

Implementing 2D, 3D and N-D arrays, row-major vs column-major implementation

Segmentation

string instructions

Introduction to Interrupts

Software vs Hardware interrupts

Writing interrupt routines

Introduction to floating point

The coprocessor, 8087 register stack, floating point instructions

Introduction to reverse engineering