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S. SmithProgramming with 64-Bit ARM Assembly Languagehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5881-1_3

3. Tooling Up

Stephen Smith1 
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Gibsons, BC, Canada
 

In this chapter, we will learn a better way to build our programs using GNU Make. With the GNU Debugger (GDB), we will debug our programs. We’ll look at the tools required to cross-compile for ARM from an Intel computer, develop Assembly Language for Google Android, and add Assembly Language to Apple iOS apps. Also, we will quickly introduce the source control system Git and the build server Jenkins.

GNU Make

We built our programs using a simple shell script to run the GNU Assembler and then the Linux linker/loader. As we move forward, we want a more sophisticated tool to build our ...

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