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Hands-On System Programming with Linux
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Hands-On System Programming with Linux

by Kaiwan N. Billimoria, Tigran Aivazian
October 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
794 pages
19h 23m
English
Packt Publishing
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The ABI

Let's imagine that we write a C program, and run it on the machine.

Well, hang on a second. C code cannot possibly be directly deciphered by the CPU; it must be converted into machine language. So, we understand that on modern systems we will have a toolchain installed – this includes the compiler, linker, library objects, and various other tools. We compile and link the C source code, converting it into an executable format that can be run on the system.

The processor Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) – documents the machine's instruction formats, the addressing schemes it supports, and its register model. In fact, CPU Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) release a document that describes how the machine works; this document ...

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