System Programming

• Course webpage: http://solomon.ipv6.club.tw/Course/SP/
• Textbook: Leland L. Beck, "System Software: An Introduction to Systems Programming" (3rd Edition), published by Addison Wesley
• Reference: Unix on-line manuals
• Students enroll in this class
• TA:
  1. 吳菖育 changyu@ms11.voip.edu.tw ext. 4763
  2. 劉嘉翔 cht.liu@gmail.com ext. 4862
• Q & A

Lecture Notes

9/22	Chapter 1 Background	HW1 (Due: 9/28)
9/29	SIC Machine Architecture Calling a Subroutine ,Calling a Subroutine with Arguments	HW2 (Due: 10/12)
10/6	Mid-Autumn Festival
10/13	SIC/XE Machine Architecture	HW3 (Due: 10/19)
10/20	Quiz 1
10/27	2.1 Basic Assembler Functions
11/3	2.2 Machine-Dependent Assembler Features
11/10	Quiz 2, Answer
11/17	Quiz 3, Answer 2.3 Machine-Independent Assembler Features
11/24	2.3.4 Program Blocks
12/1	1st Mid-Term Exam , Answer
12/8	2.3.5 Control Sections
12/20 (調課)	2.4 One-Pass Assemblers 3.1 Absolute Loader
12/22	Quiz 5 3.2 Program Linking	HW4 (Due: 1/4)
12/29	2nd Mid-Term Exam , Answer
1/5	3.4 Loader Design Options	HW5
1/12	Chapter 4 Macro Processors 4.1 Basic Macro Processor Functions, 4.2 Machine-independent Macro Processor Features, 4.3 Macro Processor Design Options
1/19	Final Exam ,Answer

Homeworks

1. 9x9 Multiplication Table in C language
   1. Get familiar with the editor on FreeBSD server
   2. Send an email from your Unix account
2. HW2: Basic I/O on SIC
3. HW3: 9x9 Multiplication Table on SIC
4. HW4: 9x9 Multiplication Table on SIC/XE
5. HW5: ESTAB
6. HW6: Recursive Programming on SIC/XE

Goals of this course

1. Know tools
2. Learn concepts (graduate school entrance exam)
3. Write programs

Tools on Unix

1. DLL
2. Dbm
3. Ncurse
4. Cflow
5. Nroff
6. Diff
7. Make
8. Syslog
9. Gettext
10. gdb with forward-backward step (hu

Related Link

• UNT CSCI 3600
• SIC/XE Instruction Set Table
• SIC/XE assembler by Ajax

Bonus

1. SIC/XE Disassembler
2. Presentation on the "ncurse" library
3. Presentation on the "readline" library
4. SIC/XE Emulator (with instruction counts)