The first Linux-centered guide to x86 assembly language!

In Linux Assembly Language Programming, Bob Neveln explains all the key features of x86 assembly language in the context of the Linux operating system and the C language. The book's step-by-step, one-concept-at-a-time coverage will help any hardware programmer move to Linux, and master essential skills for Linux device driver development. You won't just learn new x86 assembly language skills: you'll also gain powerful "under the hood" insight into how Linux works. Bonus CD-ROM includes edlinas, the #1 Linux-based x86 interactive assembler development simulator!

Linux x86 assembly language programming, from start to finish!

• Place-holding numeration
• Logic circuits
• Computation
• The four-field format
• Machine language
• Memory
• The stack
• Linux user programs
• NASM
• DOS programs
• Interrupts
• Bit manipulations
• Device drivers
• And more...