I am currently updating the book for version 4.7.0 of gcc. As I do
this, I am fixing typos, etc. There are several ways to contribute:
1. Send me feedback about any problems you see in the book: typos,
parts that are difficult to understand, errors, etc.
2. Donate money (a sort of "royalty" for this free version) using
either www.paypal.com or payments.amazon.com; my email address for
this is address@hidden.
3. Wait until I publish the updated version of the book and buy it.
Hopefully, this will be in a month or two. I plan to sell it through
www.lulu.com in both pdf and paper versions. I plan to keep the
price low, in the order of $10 - $15 for the pdf and $30 - $40 for
the paper. Anyone who cannot afford to pay should contact me for
other arrangements.
Of these three ways, number 1 is the most appreciated. My main goal
is to create a book that is as useful as possible.
--Bob
On 06/21/2012 09:04 AM, Iurie wrote:
hi,
i found your book very interesting. Can i also somehow contribute
to it?
On 21 June 2012 16:41, Bob Plantz <address@hidden>
wrote:
On 06/21/2012 03:46 AM, Iurie wrote:
Hi Bob,
what course u are teaching out there? give me the link
to it, perhaps i will learn there something useful as i
am also a student.
I retired from teaching in 2004, but I keep my book,
Introduction to Computer Architecture, updated. It is
available on my web site: bob.cs.sonoma.edu
I checked info gdb. Under Source->Specify Location I
found an entry for `*ADDRESS'. Apparently, the *ADDRESS form
is for C, C++, Java, Objective-C, Fortran, minimal, and
assembly. The *&ADDRESS' form is for Pascal and
Modula-2. However, it seems that gdb is forgiving between
these two forms. And, from my personal experience, this can
differ between versions and can change over time.
--Bob
On 21 June 2012 05:09, Bob
Plantz <address@hidden>
wrote:
On 6/20/2012 1:39 PM, Adam Beneschan wrote:
I am using the
following assembly language program
(doNothingProg.s) for
instruction purposes:
.text
.globl main
.type main, @function
main:
pushq %rbp # save caller's
frame pointer
movq %rsp, %rbp # establish our
frame pointer
movl $0, %eax # return 0 to
caller
movq %rbp, %rsp # restore stack
pointer
popq %rbp # restore
caller's frame pointer
ret # back to
caller
I want to set a breakpoint at the first
instruction (pushq %rbp) so
students can see how the stack frame is
created.
break *&main
-- Adam
Thank you for the response Adam.
Actually, break *main worked for me. (Or just br
*main). I'm not in Linux right now, but I will
double check next time I log in.
I found this by using info gdb and some looking
around. As usual, the answer is in the
documentation, as I often told my students. :-[
--Bob
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