davis@ux3.lbl.gov (Jeffrey Davis) (02/18/90)
Hello, I am looking for recommendations for a good 386 assembly language book. Not a tutorial but rather a reference which I won't outgrow. I am trying to hand optimize some C code on a 386 PC but don't know much about the 386 and need times for various instructions and so forth. I will be using TASM if it matters. Please mail me and I will post a summary of the replies. Jeff Davis -- Jeff Davis (JCDavis@lbl.gov)
dhinds@portia.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) (02/19/90)
In article <4895@helios.ee.lbl.gov>, davis@ux3.lbl.gov (Jeffrey Davis) writes: > I am looking for recommendations for a good 386 assembly language > book. Not a tutorial but rather a reference which I won't outgrow. I have Edmund Strauss's "80386 Technical Reference", and I've found it to be reasonably complete and accurate. It has good descriptions of the differences between the 80386's various operating modes, and includes descriptions of all instructions with timing information. It definitely assumes general familiarity with assembly language. - David Hinds dhinds@popserver.stanford.edu