SPARC Architecture, Assembly Language Programming, and C

SPARC Architecture, Assembly Language Programming, and C, 2/e

Richard P. Paul, University of Pennsylvania

Published July, 1999 by Prentice Hall Engineering/Science/Mathematics

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Summary

For Assembly Language and Architecture courses emphasizing SPARC architecture found in computer science, engineering and business departments. Written from a programmer's perspective, this long-awaited revision introduces the SPARC assembly language to readers early on. Other introductory material encompasses making use of UNIX tools (the m4 macro processor; the assembler; the gnu emacs editor; and the gdb debugger). Further coverage includes a formal definition of the von Neumann machine, its relationship to programmable calculators, and to the JAVA bytecode and JAVA virtual machine. Not only is this book suitable for introductory computer architecture courses, but for programmers who will be programming SPARC architecture machine in languages such as C and C++.

Features

NEW—Includes the latest material on the new ULTRA SPARC architecture.
NEW—Examines the complexity and cost of using various data and control structures in high-level languages.
NEW—Frequent references to C and C++ language constructs and their translation into SPARC assembly language.
NEW—Offers optional material on floating point, traps, memory management, and other architectures.
NEW—A Companion Website—Supplements the text with updates and code examples at: www.prenhall.com/paul.
Teaches how to evaluate compilers, data structures, and control structures in order to write efficient programs in a high-level language.

Table of Contents

1. The Computer.
2. SPARC Architecture.
3. Digital Logic and Binary Numbers.
4. Binary Arithmetic.
5. The Stack.
6. Data Structures.
7. Subroutines.
8. Machine Instructions.
9. External Data and Text.
10. Input/Output.
11. Floating-Point.
12. Traps and Exceptions.
13. Memory Management.
14. Other Architectures.
15. Ultra Sparc.
Appendix A: Macro Definitions.
Appendix B: Multiplication by Constants.
Appendix C: User Mode Machine Instructions.
Appendix D: Synthetic Instructions and Pseudo-Ops.
Appendix E: Instructions Sorted Alphabetically.
Appendix F: Powers of 2.
Appendix G: Macro Language Processor m4.
Index.