Advanced Assembler Language and MVS Interfaces: For IBM Systems and Application Programmers [Paperback]

Carmine A. Cannatello (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471361763 | ISBN-13: 978-0471361763 | Publication Date: August 24, 1999 | Edition: 2

This updated and expanded edition of the #1 guide to advanced Assembler language programming does everything you wish IBM manuals would do, and more. With the help of 225 bug-free coding examples, many taken from real-world implementations, author Carmine Cannatello describes a wide range of essential Assembler coding techniques not found in most books on the subject. He also acquaints you with important MVS facilities and services and their required program interfaces, and shows you step-by-step how to program them.

A complete guide for programmers working on all IBM mainframe systems, from System/360 through System/390 series mainframes, this book covers:
* Testing and debugging
* Assembler algorithms tested on various mainframes
* Reentrant programs, branch tables, external subroutines, and other "exotic" techniques
* 31-bit addressing
* Extended addressability
* Cross-memory services
* Using the Linkage Editor

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From the Publisher

Because Advanced Assembler is not taught in a regular curriculum, but is used extensively in systems and applications programming, there is a great need for Advanced Assembler reference and review sources. This book, based on an intensive short course taught by the author at NYU, provides essential information on advanced programming techniques, backed up by an enormous number of examples with example code. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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This updated and expanded edition of the #1 guide to advanced Assembler language programming does everything you wish IBM manuals would do, and more. With the help of 225 bug-free coding examples, many taken from real-world implementations, author Carmine Cannatello describes a wide range of essential Assembler coding techniques not found in most books on the subject. He also acquaints you with important MVS facilities and services and their required program interfaces, and shows you step-by-step how to program them.

A complete guide for programmers working on all IBM mainframe systems, from System/360 through System/390 series mainframes, this book covers:
* Testing and debugging
* Assembler algorithms tested on various mainframes
* Reentrant programs, branch tables, external subroutines, and other "exotic" techniques
* 31-bit addressing
* Extended addressability
* Cross-memory services
* Using the Linkage Editor

Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/

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Product Details

• Paperback: 848 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (August 24, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471361763
• ISBN-13: 978-0471361763
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 7.7 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,126,355 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New edition of the standard assembler reference book, February 17, 2000

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This review is from: Advanced Assembler Language and MVS Interfaces: For IBM Systems and Application Programmers (Paperback)

This is the standard reference work for assembler programmers. The title implies that it covers the advanced instruction set, such as privileged instructions, that are used primarily by systems programmers and systems software developers. This edition is almost identical to the first edition, but with new chapters on extended addressability, the assembler and the linkage editor. Early chapters include assembler basics such as register usage, building macros and programming style.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent, and rare, assembler reference, October 12, 1999

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This review is from: Advanced Assembler Language and MVS Interfaces: For IBM Systems and Application Programmers (Paperback)

Assembler reference books are hard-to-find these days, much less good ones. This is a superb, detailed, and very thorough reference. This book presents, in good depth, a vast array of important programming issues that are not even mentioned in most other Assembler books (if you can even find one!). Highly recommended.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-read for every systems programmer, September 30, 1999

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This review is from: Advanced Assembler Language and MVS Interfaces for IBM Systems and Application Programmers (Wiley professional computing) (Paperback)

This is probably the best book on MVS Assembler in the market at the moment. If you have not read this book cover to cover yet, you should hang yourself in shame. It's not just an Assembler book, it's a Bible of the MVS internals. A sound training in Assembler is indeed required to grasp the contents of the book, but you don't have to be an Assembler Guru to start reading it.