Re: confused asm newbie

[willy meier <wklux@yahoo.co.uk>]

Jason Roberts wrote:
> 
> I have a few questions concerning how the stack is used and how memory is
> accessed
> and what it looks like.I've read books, which only serve to confuse me, or
> the author tries
> to mystify you into believing assembly is dark magic only for the elite.

don't get discuraged by those utterly stupid people...
I hope, the following helps to de-mystify:


"Machine-Level Representations of C Programs on Linux/IA32", 
	http://www.lxhp.in-berlin.de/lhplinks.html#cas

also, the System-V & POSIX documents specify the C to asm translation, 
	http://www.lxhp.in-berlin.de/lhplinks.html#sysv

and, if you compile with the following options to the assembler, you'll
get the complete asm listing from compiling a C program, piped into the
file 'LOG.m':

	CFLAGS += -Wa,-acdlms -save-temps
	make (or 'cc' or any other appropriate command) 2>&1 | tee -a LOG.m

tracing with the 'ald' debugger and tests with 'strace' and 'ltrace'
would also return much information about programs execution (links on
above mentioned page).

best,
	hp

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