System Programming

        Instructor:

Prof. Shie-Yuan Wang

Course description:

Presentation of the construction of several system software such as assembler, linker, loader, macro processor, and other software. (Note, because the CSIE students will have to take a mandatory compiler course next semester, the construction of compilers will not be presented in this course.) Some concepts related to operating system such as virtual memory will also be covered to make this course a self-contained course. The object file formats (a.out and elf) and the static and dynamic linked shared librarys that are used in the current FreeBSD and Linux will also be studied.

Textbooks:

• System software: An introduction to systems programming, Leland L. Beck, 3^rd edition, Addison Wesley 1997. (reserved and available at the 交大全民書局)
• Linker and loader, John R. Levine, Morgan Kaufmann, 2000

Course handout

File	Topic	References
Lecture note 1	Introduction to operating systems and system softwares
Lecture note 2	Real Memory Management
Lecture note 3	Virtual Memory Management
Lecture note 4	Simplified Instructional Computer (SIC)/XE Overview
Lecture note 5	A Simple Two Pass Assembler
Lecture note 6	Machine Dependent Assembler Features
Lecture note 7	Machine Independent Assembler Features (Literal, Symbol, Expression)
Lecture note 8	Machine Independent Assembler Features (Program Blocks, Control Sessions and Linking)
Lecture note 9	Assembler Design Options
Lecture note 10	Loader and Linker
Lecture note 11	Macro Processor
Lecture note 12	A Case Study on UNIX a.out File Format
Lecture note 13	A Case Study on UNIX ELF File Format
Lecture note 14	Symbol Management in Linking
Lecture note 15	Statically Linked Shared Libraries
Lecture note 16	Dynamically linked Shared Libraries