From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 17 14:37:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA07775 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 14:37:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA07766 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 14:37:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id PAA21380; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 15:33:17 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199704172133.PAA21380@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: Good asembly language books? To: ccsanady@nyx.pr.mcs.net (Chris Csanady) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 15:33:15 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704170341.WAA10492@nyx.pr.mcs.net> from "Chris Csanady" at Apr 16, 97 10:41:55 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chris Csanady asked: > I was wondering if anyone could recommend and good books. Particularly The Bible? ;^) > ones that are written with the AT&T syntax. I know this isn't FreeBSD > specific, but I would like to do some work on FreeBSD. :-) _The C Porgramming Language_, Kernighan and Ritchie _The C++ Programming Language_, Stroustroup AT&T sytax? Do you mean *assembler* books? Urk! The only x86 assembler book I've ever bought is _Programming the 80386_ published by Sybex. If it's still in print, or has a 486 or Pentium brother, it should hold up well. That and the Intel (AMD, Cyrix, etc) databooks will cover the information. Why would you want to program a UNIX system in assembler? Other than tiny utility routines for device drivers? If you want to learn about programming UNIX, I strongly recommend _Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment_, and _UNIX Network Programming_, both by W. Richard Stevens. Buy anything he writes, even if its scribbled on the back of a napkin. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com