Re: Adding asm examples

[uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost (Valeriy E. Ushakov)]

Julio Merino <jmmv%julipedia.org@localhost> wrote:

> I would like to add some trivial, heavily-commented assembly code 
> examples to /usr/share/examples/asm/.  The goal of these examples would 
> be to illustrate platform-specific stuff rather than teach the assembly 
> language itself (but this would be a side-effect anyway).  For instance, 
> a "hello world" example would show how to craft an ELF file and how to 
> perform a couple of system calls according to the platform conventions. 
>  There could be another example showing the C->ASM call protocol.
> 
> The reason I'm proposing this is because, out of pure curiosity, I've 
> started learning PowerPC assembly and such examples could come very 
> handy.  (Books teach you the general assembly language but not how that 
> is put in practice in a specific platform/assembler... and 'gas' is 
> quite... special.)  I found some sample code in the old wiki, but it 
> would be much more useful if it were in the tree.
> 
> These teeny-tiny examples would come with a Makefile ready for use and 
> some trivial tests to ensure that the sample code builds and runs on the 
> platforms that implement the specific tests.
> 
> Comments / objections?

Frankly, I think it's pretty pointless.  I think that the target
audience for these examples is pretty much nonexistent.  People who
*think* they are the target audience are better off reading psABI &co
instead.

-uwe