C and C++ Under the Hood: 2nd Edition - Softcover

Dos Reis, Anthony J.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798514952076

Publisher: Independently published, 2021

Synopsis

This second edition of the the highly acclaimed first edition provides the reader with an invaluable insight into C and C++ in particular and programming languages in general. Although the title of the book, C and C++ Under the Hood, suggests that the book has a narrow scope, in fact, just the opposite is true: It is an introduction to assembly language, programming language design, object-oriented programming, assemblers, compilers, interpreters, linkers, computer architecture, and system programming. You will learn what happens at the machine level corresponding to the features, constructs, operations, and extensions of the C and C++ programming languages. For example, you will learn

• what an object in memory looks like and how its functions are called and its data accessed
• why dynamic local variables have no default values but global variables do
• how virtual functions are implemented
• what happens during a call by reference
• what is the difference between static functions and ordinary functions
• some interesting parameter-passing extensions (pass by value-result, pass by name)
• what happens when a recursive function is executed
• what startup code is and what is its function
• how two separately-compiled modules are linked together
• what is in object and executable files
• how to write an assembler and a linker
• how to write a machine language interpreter

The book is accompanied by a free download which includes an easy-to-use but powerful assembler, linker, interpreter, and debugger program for the Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Raspberry Pi systems. Included in the book are a number of well-defined system programming projects that support the material covered. This second edition incorporates a number of improvements:

• The text includes a new chapter on the microlevel accompanied by supporting software so readers can write and experiment with their own microcode. In addition, the software package contains a second new chapter in pdf format on virtual memory.
• The software package now includes slides for the textbook.
• The directions and shell programs for the projects in the system programming chapter have been improved.
• The instruction set has been substantially expanded and improved.
• The text now uses the more standard gcc assembly language format and directives. The software supports both the gcc format and the format and directives used in the first edition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798514952076
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290