Bleadof's world of tinkering » Studies http://hiutale.org It's just life, it'll sort itself out Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:42:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 AT&T x86 assembly instruction reference http://hiutale.org/2008/11/11/att-x86-assembly-instruction-reference/ http://hiutale.org/2008/11/11/att-x86-assembly-instruction-reference/#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:22:39 +0000 Bleadof http://hiutale.org/?p=50 The juice of this blog post is here: AT&T x86 assembly instruction reference can be found in the Appendix B. with the the title “Common x86 Instructions” from Programming from the Ground Up by Bartlett, J.

The actual process how I came about finding this bit of info was when I was reading Building Secure Software by Viega, J and McGraw, G in towards efforts of finishing my bachelor and master thesis on “Common faults in software which lead to a vulnerability”. The book is a brilliant as an entry level book for everyone working on software development and trying to think more securely when programming. Although hopefully my master’s thesis will serve this entry level of thinking secure while programming as well. Anyway, I was reading the BSS book and on the Stack Overflows chapter there’s this part where you’re told to use the gcc with -S flag to compile the C code to Assembly language and tweak it. So to be able to tweak it I wanted to understand what were the instructions in the Assembly language. I googled a bit to find AT&T instructions and that didn’t give me much until I finally found a question on comp.lang.asm.x86 news group which said that one would be in the Programming from the Ground Up book and there it was.

]]> http://hiutale.org/2008/11/11/att-x86-assembly-instruction-reference/feed/ 0 Great Assembler programming book http://hiutale.org/2008/03/14/great-assembler-programming-book/ http://hiutale.org/2008/03/14/great-assembler-programming-book/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:02:47 +0000 Bleadof http://hiutale.org/2008/03/14/great-assembler-programming-book/ I found this brilliantly written Assembler, which I’m reading for my thesis, book online a while back already but I thought it might worth mentioning now. It’s called “PC Assembly Language” and its author is Paul A. Carter. It can be downloaded in PDF and PostScript so I suppose most of the people can read it. I don’t about the accessibility of a PDF or PS so I won’t say everyone can read it, but the text itself is very clear and easy to understand. It also offers good examples. I think it’s a bit sad that it’s written in Intel syntax, but I suppose that’s unavoidable. I’ve been reading mostly AT&T syntax which is a bit different, but you get used to Intel syntax fairly fast.

Now I’m off to a meeting…

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