Chapter 4. PowerPC Assembly for the HLL Programmer

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Throughout this book you’ll be examining high-level language code and comparing it against the machine code that the compiler generates for the high-level code. Making sense of the compiler’s output requires some knowledge of assembly language programming. Though becoming an expert assembly language programmer takes time and experience, such a skill level isn’t necessary for our purposes. All you really need is the ability to read code that compilers and other assembly language programmers have produced; you don’t need the ability to write assembly language programs from scratch. The purpose of ...

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