X86 Assembly Language and C Fundamentals 1st Edition

I found this book to be one of the best texts on the market for learning Assembly Language. I have read the books by the current two giants of Assembly Language instruction (Randall Hyde and Kip Irvine). This book is better than both of those texts. It is a big book 800+ pages but explains everything very clearly and has detailed answers to many questions in the back of the book.The two 'problems' I had with the book was that Amazon does not provide a look inside for this text. This makes it difficult for someone to select the book as there is very little found about Professor Cavanagh's teaching methods via Google searches.The second issue is that the book is missing a link to locations from which one can download MASM, TASM, FASM or NASM (the assemblers that can be used with this book). One can always find this information via Google; but, it would have been nice to have it readily available in an appendix of the book.

a wonderfull book at a wonderfull price

Author explains the most basic concepts in the most complicated way. I couldn't understand the material that I actually knew when reading those topics in his book.

The author states on Page 217 that the focus of the book is to present X86 code segment modules embedded in C code.He tells you how the vast majority of the operands and instructions in X86 are manipulated but doesn't elaborate on how it is used in any actual programs (i.e. he doesn't examine an executable file or anything like that).Maybe this works for you and maybe it doesn't, IMO this is the first book but certainly not the last book you should buy on X86.Be sure to check out Igor Zhirkov's "Low-Level Programming" as soon as it is available...it looks very promising and may plug the holes I had with Cavanagh.

Great