Introduction
Abstract
This chapter introduces the basic concepts of computer organization and code compilation, along with reasons why assembly language is relevant. It also discusses the representation of textual and numerical data, with emphasis on radix complement math.
Keywords
Instruction stream; Assembly; Acorn RISC Machine (ARM) processor; Computer data; Base conversion; Integers; Complement; Characters; Memory layout
An executable computer program is, ultimately, just a series of numbers that have very little or no meaning to a human being. We have developed a variety of human-friendly languages in which to express computer programs, but in order for the program to execute, it must eventually be reduced to a stream of numbers. Assembly ...
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