380X86 ASSEMBLY FOR THE HLL PROGRAMMER
Throughout this book, you’ll examine high-level language code and compare it to the machine code that a compiler generates for it. Making sense of a compiler’s output requires some knowledge of assembly language, but fortunately, you don’t need to be an expert assembly programmer for this. As discussed in previous chapters, all you really need is the ability to read code generated by compilers and other assembly language programmers.
This chapter provides a primer specifically on the 80x86 assembly language, covering the following topics:
The basic 80x86 machine architecture
How to read the 80x86 output ...
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