Macro Magic with Turbo Assembler [Paperback]

Jim Mischel (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471578150 | ISBN-13: 978-0471578154 | Publication Date: October 1992 | Edition: 1

Languages/Assembler Macro Magic with Turbo Assembler® This book is a guide to one of the best-kept secrets of assembly language programming: the effective use of macros. This underutilized feature of assembly language will help you write tighter, clearer, and easier-to-understand code, and will save you hours of programming time. With examples written in Borland International’s Turbo Assembler, this book:

• Takes you easily and gradually through the rigors of macro programming, from the basics to sophisticated advanced techniques
• Includes a disk containing source code for all the macros developed in the book, including listings in both Turbo Assembler and Microsoft Assembler
• Emphasizes practical, real-world macros that you can put to work in your own programs
• Describes how to optimize macros for maximum efficiency and flexibility
• Explains how macros and subroutines can be used to take some of the drudgery out of building assembly language filter programs
• Presents TINY, a very small general-purpose programming language written entirely in assembly language macros, to demonstrate the power of "little languages"

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

No other book focuses exclusively on macros in assembly language. Extremely accessible, it clearly explains how to incorporate macros into assembly language code and then use that code to speed up execution of high-level programs. Special emphasis is given to optimizing code. The accompanying disk contains 100 macros ready to use with Turbo Assembler.

From the Back Cover

Languages/Assembler Macro Magic with Turbo Assembler® This book is a guide to one of the best-kept secrets of assembly language programming: the effective use of macros. This underutilized feature of assembly language will help you write tighter, clearer, and easier-to-understand code, and will save you hours of programming time. With examples written in Borland International’s Turbo Assembler, this book:

Takes you easily and gradually through the rigors of macro programming, from the basics to sophisticated advanced techniques

Includes a disk containing source code for all the macros developed in the book, including listings in both Turbo Assembler and Microsoft Assembler

Emphasizes practical, real-world macros that you can put to work in your own programs

Describes how to optimize macros for maximum efficiency and flexibility

Explains how macros and subroutines can be used to take some of the drudgery out of building assembly language filter programs

Presents TINY, a very small general-purpose programming language written entirely in assembly language macros, to demonstrate the power of "little languages"

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Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (October 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471578150
• ISBN-13: 978-0471578154
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,039,998 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A really magic reading for code optimization!, December 12, 1998

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This review is from: Macro Magic with Turbo Assembler (Paperback)

This book is a must read for every serious developer. I was greatly pleased with the book except that it was a little thin. It is an excellent introduction for assembly language programming and the very effective use of macros. I highly recommend this book for programmers who are interested to write fast and tight code in a high efficient manner. This book needs to be owned by developers doing assembly language programming on a higher level.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New to Programming ? - This book is a great at explaining..., March 23, 2001

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I am new to programming in general and will start to learn Assembler next quarter, our instructor has told us that if we learn assembler well, (meaning to document correctly and make our code 'elegant') we will be in the highly sought after group of people they call Professionals. This is of course a great goal. But you know about the alligator/ swamp thing. I am now at this part of the learning curve - so overwhelmed by the sheer volume of things -to remember, that it is too easy to just get job done and make it work. Well, Jeff has taken a most unique approach to this problem - he has written a book for absolute beginners - and he does so with out making me fell like I just arrived on the planet. He assumes that you are knowledgeable about your PC and nothing more (how to turn it on, etc) He seems truly interested in making this and his future books to come - a book that we would want to have on our reference shelves for years to come. My highest recommendation for an author would be - if I cared - if he would write another book on this or a related subject. In this case, I am going to write him a letter to ask him to do so. It is, as if I had just read my first book by Clive Cussler and can't wait for the next book to come out.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New to Programming ? - This book is a great at explaining..., March 23, 2001

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Kevin W. Davis III "certified-precision" (Olympia, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Macro Magic with Turbo Assembler (Paperback)

I am new to programming in general and will start to learn Assembler next quarter, our instructor has told us that if we learn assembler well, (meaning to document correctly and make our code 'elegant') we will be in the highly sought after group of people they call Professionals. This is of course a great goal. But you know about the alligator/ swamp thing. I am now at this part of the learning curve - so overwhelmed by the sheer volume of things -to remember, that it is too easy to just get job done and make it work. Well, Jeff has taken a most unique approach to this problem - he has written a book for absolute beginners - and he does so with out making me fell like I just arrived on the planet. He assumes that you are knowledgeable about your PC and nothing more (how to turn it on, etc) He seems truly interested in making this and his future books to come - a book that we would want to have on our reference shelves for years to come. My highest recommendation for an author would be - if I cared - if he would write another book on this or a related subject. In this case, I am going to write him a letter to ask him to do so. It is, as if I had just read my first book by Clive Cussler and can't wait for the next book to come out.