ECS050: Machine Dependent Programming

Course Info

• Class resources drive (official)
• My GDB setup

Data Representation

• represent unique states in binary
• bitwise operation
  • common bitwise operations
  • bit shifting
• signed integer
  • signed magnitude: top bit represents signedness (1 if negative)
  • two’s complement
• convert from any base to any base
• endianness
  • little-endian
  • big-endian
• IEEE floating-point representation
• decimal to IEEE floating-point

Assembly

• Intel syntax assembly