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Assembly resources

• x86 Instruction Set Reference Note: this guide uses Intel style assembly syntax in its descriptions. We are using AT&T style syntax for our assembly code. See page 166 in your book for the difference.

Learning C, and C Reference

• C for Java Programmers (contains links to C tutorials and C reference books)
• C for Java Programmers by J. Maassen
• A Tutorial on Pointers and Arrays in C by Ted Jensen
• Top tips to help the Java programmer code in C

CS:App2e resources

• Student resources (includes Unix FAQ, C tutorials, example code, GDB tutorials, and more.)

GDB resources

• Guide to Faster, Less Frustrating Debugging by Norman Matloff
• GDB User Manual
• GDB usage primer video
• Useful GDB commands
• Another GDB cheat sheet
• Insight a GDB Graphical User Interface

Miscellaneous

• Machine programming
  • The Story of Mel
  • Programming from the Ground Up. Introduction to programming via assembly.
• Linking and loading
  • Smallest possible ELF executable?
• Dynamic memory management
  • A Memory Allocator by Doug Lea
• Memory hierarchy and memory technology
  • Breadboarding RAM
  • Hard drive teardown
  • Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage
• Optimization
  • About GCC printf optimization by Peter Seiderer
  • Will It Optimize? from ridiculousfish
• Concurrency and synchronization
  • The Little Book of Semaphores by Allen B. Downey