UMBC CMSC 313, Computer Organization & Assembly Language, Fall 2004, Section 0101

i386 Assembly Language II

Thursday 09/16, 2004

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Assigned Reading in Murdocca & Heuring:   

Assigned Reading in Neveln:  6.1-6.5

Assigned:  Proj1

Due:   

Slides (in PDF): Slides05.pdf

Topics Covered:

• Recapped i386 basic architecture.
• Looked at toupper.asm (see below).
• The EFLAGS register and conditional jumps.
• Discussed Project 1.

Programs shown:

• A program that converts the user's input from lower case to upper case: toupper.asm and toupper.txt. (Note: the transcript toupper.txt contains a demo of gdb that was not shown during the Thursday September 16 lecture.)