nirvananimbusa / irvingt

Reimplementation of Irvine32 library for Kip Irvine's "Assembly Language for x86 Processors"

IrvingT

IrvingT is a clone of the Irvine32 library, used in Assembly Language for x86 Processors by Kip Irvine, for Unix-like systems (Linux, BSD, etc.). This library is one piece of the puzzle of working with programs in the textbook on Unix-like systems. (For the full puzzle, read doc/puzzle.md.)

Unlike Along32, a Linux port of Irvine32, IrvingT uses the C standard library and POSIX API functions, rather than system calls, so it is portable to other Unix-like systems. Also, IrvingT provides an emulation of the Windows ExitProcess function, which is required by the exit macro in Irvine32.

The latest version is 0.2.1. Not all functions are implemented yet. For a list of implemented functions, read doc/implemented.txt.

Compiling

Simply run make to get a static library called irvingt.a in the current directory.

Irving/Along

Even though one goal of IrvingT is to overcome the portability problems of Along32, you can combine IrvingT and Along32 into "Irving/Along." In this case, IrvingT will supply only those functions that are not provided by Along32.

An additional makefile, Makefile-IrvingAlong, is provided for this purpose. Edit the file and change the Along32 source directory. Then run make -f Makefile-IrvingAlong to get a static library called irvingalong.a in the current directory.

Documentation

Documentation (in Doxygen format) is in irvingt-real.c file.

Tested Environments

IrvingT has been tested on the following platforms with GCC and Clang:

• x86-64 GNU/Linux (with 32-bit development files, sometimes called "multilib")
• x86 FreeBSD
• x86 OpenBSD

Copyright

IrvingT is available under the 2-clause BSD license. Refer to LICENSE.txt for details.