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SPARC Architecture, Assembly Language Programming, and C (2nd Edition)
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by Richard P. Paul
Sales Rank: 763428
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List Price: $96.67
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Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2nd edition August 8, 1999
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0130255963
ISBN-13: 978-0130255969
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.8 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Book Info
Introduces the SPARC assembly language and provides understanding of the complexity and cost of using various data and control structures in high-level languages. Includes the latest material on the new Ultra SPARC architecture. Softcover. DLC: Reduced instruction set computers.
The publisher, Prentice-Hall Engineering/Science/Mathematics
An introduction to computer architecture for the SPARC® reduced instruction set architecture, this text teaches how to evaluate compilers, data strucures, and control structures in order to write efficient programs in a high-level language.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Customer Reviews & Comments
I picked up this book to familiarize myself with the SPARC architecture for an upcoming project and I was extremely disappointed in the presentation of the material, both grammatically and intuitively. First, when learning assembly language, the last thing a reader or student needs is the code to be obfuscated by a preprocessing tool such as m4. Hiding address offsets and variable alignments in nearly impossible to decipher macros is NOT helpful. This does not make it easier to learn assembly. I found myself learning more about a tool that I'll never use after finishing this book than about SPARC assembly. Second, whoever edited the manuscript for this book should be fired. I found myself editing the book as I read so I could understand what the author was trying to say. I also found the language to be a bit obtuse in a few, unfortunately important, places. Third, the diagrams in the book need some serious help as well. They were almost useless. Many of them made the topic being discussed more confusing. I found myself using Wikipedia or the Sparc V8 manual more than once. All that said, the book does try to cover the important aspects of the SPARC architecture. I did get the needed information from the book, but it could have been organized and presented much better. The book could be a great SPARC reference and tutorial book if these problems were addressed in a future edition.
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