Re: setup needed for PowerPC assembler programming
Well I won an auction on ebay for a G3 iMac. Its blueberry colored!
$120 + $40 shipping. Not bad.
I am looking forward to seeing how far I can go with this. I have an
IBM as400 which is powered by a 64 bit PPC with some special
instructions only used on that system. The as400 uses 16 byte pointers
and an architecture that is called "single level store" that is
different than what you see in Linux and Windows.
http://lwn.net/2001/features/OLS/pdf/pdf/iseries.pdf
http://www.domsys.com/bookshop/i/IBM_AS_400/Inside_the_AS_400_Second_Edition_1882419669.htm
thanks for the help,
Steve Richter
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:54:32 -0300, Michael D. Crawford
<crawford@goingware.com> wrote:
> Here's some helpful PowerPC references:
>
> "Optimizing PowerPC Code" by Gary Kacmarcik
>
> It's rather out of date by now, and doesn't cover today's powerpc
> models, but it does a real good job of teaching the assembly code, and
> some of what you need to make the code as efficient as possible.
>
> The book is too old to cover AltiVec though.
>
> "PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide"
>
> You can get it in PDF form at:
>
> http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/852569B20050FF7785256996007558C6
>
> and in HTML form at:
>
> http://the.wall.riscom.net/books/proc/ppc/cwg/cover.html
>
> "Hacker's Delight" by Henry S. Warren
>
> This book was rather unfortunately labeled as being about computer
> security by the publisher, so you won't find it where you would expect
> it in the bookstore. It's full of little snippets of assembly that get
> lots of work done in as little time as possible. I haven't read it yet
> though.
>
> My article "ARM Assembly Code Optimization?" at Kuro5hin, while not
> being about the PowerPC, nevertheless has some good followup comments by
> the readers on a variety of microprocessors:
>
> http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/12/14/94342/446
>
> As for me, what I'd like is to find a page that explains the GAS'
> register syntax. GAS will do some manner of automatic register
> asssignment for you, so it is in some sense an optimizing assembler.
> But I've never been able to make sense of how it works. I have read the
> info manual on it. It still leaves me clueless.
>
> Besides using GAS, you can also use inline assembler in C or C++ code
> with gcc. That's probably the best way to get started, rather than
> writing entire assembly source files from scratch.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael D. Crawford
> GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting
> http://www.goingware.com/
> crawford@goingware.com
>
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