Assembly Language Programming

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Assembly Language Programming

• Katie Horn

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Designing Programs

• Converting from C/C to Assembly-style thinking.
• Keeping a reference handy.
• Bad Form? Not anymore.
• Procedures Go Modular.

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Debugging Assembly

• Deep Hurting
• Near Brain And/Or Property Damage
• Not for the Weak

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Debugging Assembly A Strategy

• Stare at it.
• Yell at it.
• Pointedly Ignore it for at least an hour.
• Play Tetris
• Watch Pro Wrestling
• Glance at your code.
• Ingest Caffeine
• Repeat from beginning, as necessary.

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Likes/Dislikes

• What I like
• It will let you get away with darned near
  anything.
• What I (used to) dislike
• It will let you get away with. ect.

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Other stuff I like

• More control.
• Closer to the Hardware.
• Assembly Anti-Java?
• Assembly is Machine Specific.
• Assembly is Fast.