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Power PC Programming for Intel Programmers 1995

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PowerPC Programming for Intel Programmers is a book by Kip McClanahan, described on the cover as a systems software designer at Motorola, published by IDG Books Worldwide, Foster City, California, first printing June 1995, ISBN 1-56884-306-2, Library of Congress catalog card number 95-75059. It came with a CD-ROM of MetaWare and MicroAPL tools for writing PowerPC programs on an Intel-compatible PC; the CD is not part of the scan. The text and index are numbered to p. 705; the scan has 724 PDF pages.[1]

The book teaches PowerPC assembly-level programming to programmers who know the Intel x86. The cover lists its aims as an in-depth reference to the PowerPC architecture, an analysis of the programming differences between members of the PowerPC family, and an expanded and annotated instruction set reference, which forms Appendix A.[1]

Contents

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  1. The PowerPC Transition (9)
  2. Foundations and Architecture (29)
  3. Of Eggs and Endians (59)
  4. The PowerPC Programming Model (77)
  5. Addressing Modes and Operand Conventions (151)
  6. The PowerPC Instruction Set (169)
  7. The Sublime Art of Instruction Timing (227)
  8. Memory Management (247)
  9. The PowerPC Cache (275)
  10. Exceptions and Interrupts (287)
  11. PowerPC Assembly Language Examples (319)
  12. Techniques and Tricks (361)

Appendices A (371, the instruction set reference), B (657), C (677) and D (689); Bibliography (697); Index.[1]

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References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kip McClanahan, PowerPC Programming for Intel Programmers, IDG Books, 1995, ISBN 1-56884-306-2. Cover (PDF p. 1), copyright page (PDF p. 4), contents (PDF pp. 11-16), index to p. 705 (PDF p. 719), CD licence (PDF pp. 720-723).
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