Prerequisite Tutorials

• Working with Linux:
  • The Linux command line for beginners
  • have a look at the "Revisiting C" slides from lecture for details of compiling C at the command line
• C basics for non-C programmers:
  • C for Java Programmers (from Cornell)
  • C Tutorial for C++ programmers
  • learn-c.org [up to "Arrays and Pointers" is sufficient for our needs]

Online Tools

• integer.exposed
• float.exposed

References

• x86 and amd64 instruction reference.
• GNU Assembler reference.
• C++ vectorclass library manual

Hardcore References

You probably don't need these, but they are the reference documentation for the platform.

• Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer Manuals: these are the definitive reference from Intel of their processors.
• System V Application Binary Interface: the reference for the x86-64 calling convention on Linux.
• Linux Syscall Table