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++.
- ISBN10 0130255963
- ISBN13 9780130255969
- Publish Date 24 November 1999 (first published 1 August 1993)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 9 August 2023
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 528
- Language English