Re: Adding asm examples

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:37:51AM -0500, Julio Merino wrote:
 > I would like to add some trivial, heavily-commented assembly code
 > examples to /usr/share/examples/asm/.  The goal of these examples
 > would be to illustrate platform-specific stuff rather than teach
 > the assembly language itself (but this would be a side-effect
 > anyway).  For instance, a "hello world" example would show how to
 > craft an ELF file and how to perform a couple of system calls
 > according to the platform conventions.  There could be another
 > example showing the C->ASM call protocol.
 > 
 > The reason I'm proposing this is because, out of pure curiosity,
 > I've started learning PowerPC assembly and such examples could come
 > very handy.  (Books teach you the general assembly language but not
 > how that is put in practice in a specific platform/assembler... and
 > 'gas' is quite... special.)  I found some sample code in the old
 > wiki, but it would be much more useful if it were in the tree.
 > 
 > These teeny-tiny examples would come with a Makefile ready for use
 > and some trivial tests to ensure that the sample code builds and
 > runs on the platforms that implement the specific tests.

Sounds like a good idea to me, provided you or someone you conscript
is willing to write and maintain them.

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David A. Holland
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