This page contains additional resources for students using the CS:APP text.

Textbook

• Original Powerpoint line drawings
• Code examples

C/Unix

• CS:APP Unix FAQ
• Prof. Norm Matloff's Unix/C Tutorial Center

GNU/Unix Tools

• The GNU project provides online manuals for all of the GNU tools, including:
  • Emacs (text editor)
  • GCC (compiler driver)
  • GDB (debugger)
  • Make (program building utility)
• Prof. Norm Matloff's GDB tutorial
• Quick GDB reference ( pdf, ps, txt )
• Quick GDB x86-64 reference ( txt )

IA32 and x86-64 Documentation

• R. Bryant and D. O'Hallaron, x86-64 Machine-Level Programming, Sept, 2008 (46 pages).

• Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual
  • Volume 1: Basic Architecture (pdf)
  • Volume 2a: Instruction Set Reference, A-M (pdf)
  • Volume 2b: Instruction Set Reference, N-Z (pdf)
  • Volume 3a: System Programming Guide, Part 1 (pdf)
  • Volume 3b: System Programming Guide, Part 2 (pdf)

Chapter 2: Representing and Manipulating Information

• Practice Problem 2.9: This problem uses the RGB color system as an illustration of a Boolean algebra. Here's a full color depiction of this color system.
• Writing TMin as an integer constant in C (as is done in Figure 2.13 and Practice Problem 2.20) is a bit tricky. See the Note on writing TMin in C for a more detailed explanation.
• A note on comparing floating point numbers

Chapter 3: Machine-Level Representation of Programs

• Description of AOL's buffer overflow exploit on their own AIM clients.
• Description of the 1988 Internet Worm (pdf).
• Specifying byte operands for inline assembly with GCC. See Note on byte operands with inline assembly.

Chapter 4: Processor Architecture

• Y86 tools and documentation
  • Source distribution (README)
  • Linux/Pentium binary distribution (README)
  • SunOS/Sparc binary distribution (README)
  • Simulator guide (pdf)
  • Technical report describing a successful effort at formally verifying the pipelined Y86 implementations. (pdf)

Chapter 5: Optimizing Program Performance

• Text files to benchmark word frequency analysis program
  • Full text of the collected works of Shakespeare.
  • Full text of Moby Dick.

Chapter 6: The Memory Hierarchy

• Generate your own memory using the ECT memperf tool developed by Tom Stricker (the inventor of the memory mountain) and Christian Kurmann at ETH.
• A less sophisticated program from the CS:APP book for generating the memory mountain (tar)

Chapter 10: Virtual Memory

• P. Wilson, M. Johnstone, M. Neely, and D. Boles, Dynamic Storage Allocation: A Survey and Critical Review, International Workshop on Memory Management, Kinross, Scotland, Sept, 1995. (ps).
  Comprehensive reference on storage allocators.

Chapter 12: Network Programming

• The Tiny Web server (tiny.tar).
  Expands with tar xvf tiny.tar into a directory called ./tiny that contains everything you need to test the Tiny web server, including sample HTML files, GIFS, CGI scripts, and the csapp.c and csapp.h files from Appendix B of the text. Compiled and tested on Linux boxes.
• The authoritative list of MIME types.