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cp*******@yahoo.com (C++ Shark) writes:
sorry for this cross post, but i am not sure which group is most
relevant to my question.
Yup, I can see you're very confused.
I am looking for a good book on programming in C/C++ for the intel
processors. If you know of any such material, please post a reply.
The whole idea behind the design of high level languages is to render the
underlying processor as irrelevant as possible. The language extensions
that *may* be processor specific are usually described in the compiler
documentation, as they are compiler specific.
So, get a good book about C (or C++, if you prefer to start with C++)
and learn the language. After that, pick up an x86 compiler and read its
documentation. Don't expect *everything* you read there to also apply to
another x86 compiler, however. The smart way of programming is to rely
as much as possible on the information from the C book and as little as
possible on the information from the compiler documentation. This way,
your work won't be tied up to one compiler for one processor.
Dan
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Dan Pop
DESY Zeuthen, RZ group
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