Chapter 7. LOW-LEVEL CONTROL STRUCTURES

LOW-LEVEL CONTROL STRUCTURES

This chapter discusses "pure" assembly language control statements. You'll need to master these low-level control structures before you can claim to be an assembly language programmer. By the time you finish this chapter, you should be able to stop using HLA's high-level control statements and synthesize them using low-level 80x86 machine instructions.

The last section of this chapter discusses hybrid control structures that combine the features of HLA's high-level control statements with the 80x86 control instructions. These combine the power and efficiency of the low-level control statements with the readability ...

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