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The Art of 64-Bit Assembly, Volume 1
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The Art of 64-Bit Assembly, Volume 1

by Randall Hyde
October 2021
Beginner
1032 pages
24h 43m
English
No Starch Press
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B Glossary

Symbols

.code

A section for program code.

.const

A declaration section for initialized read-only values.

.data

A declaration section for initialized variables.

.data?

A declaration section for uninitialized variables.

A

ABI

See application binary interface.

address bus

A set of electronic signals that hold a binary address of a memory element.

aggregate data types

Data types composed of one or more smaller data types.

API

Application programming interface.

application binary interface

A set of conventions that code uses to ensure interoperability between code that calls other functions or procedures and the functions or procedures being called.

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

assembly unit

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