A new assembly language programming book from a well-loved master. Art of 64-bit Assembly Language capitalizes on the long-lived success of Hyde's seminal The Art of Assembly Language.Randall Hyde's The Art of Assembly Language has been the go-to book for learning assembly language for decades. Hyde's latest work, Art of 64-bit Assembly Language is the 64-bit version of this popular text. This book guides you through the maze of assembly language programming by showing how to write assembly code that mimics operations in High-Level Languages. This leverages your HLL knowledge to rapidly understand x86-64 assembly language.This new work uses the Microsoft Macro Assembler (MASM), the most popular x86-64 assembler today. Hyde covers the standard integer set, as well as the x87 FPU, SIMD parallel instructions, SIMD scalar instructions (including high-performance floating-point instructions), and MASM's very powerful macro facilities. You'll learn in detail: how to implement high-level language data and control structures in assembly language; how to write parallel algorithms using the SIMD (single-instruction, multiple-data) instructions on the x86-64; and how to write stand alone assembly programs and assembly code to link with HLL code. You'll also learn how to optimize certain algorithms in assembly to produce faster code.

IntroductionChapter 1: Hello, World of Assembly LanguageChapter 2: Data Representation and OperationsChapter 3: Memory Access and OrganizationChapter 4: Constants, Variables, and Data TypesChapter 5: Procedures and ModulesChapter 6: ArithmeticChapter 7: Low-Level Control StructuresChapter 8: Advanced ArithmeticChapter 9: Numeric ConversionChapter 10: Table LookupsChapter 11: SIMD InstructionsChapter 12: Bit ManipulationChapter 13: Macros and the MASM Compile-Time LanguageChapter 14: The String InstructionsChapter 15: Managing Complex ProjectsChapter 16: Standalone Assembly Language ProgramsA: ASCII Character SetB: GlossaryC: Installing and Using Visual StudioD: The Windows Command-Line InterpreterE Answers to Questions