Moving to ARM
With Windows moving to ARM platforms I’m learning ARM assembly language and system programming. Being mostly exposed to PDP-11, VAX-11 and Intel architectures my interest in ARM systems began with porting my old project to Windows Mobile and writing a tool called WindowHistory Mobile to assist me in debugging. I remember how I was surprised when WinDbg was able to open a crash dump and show ARM code! Then I put it aside. Now with Windows Mobile 7 and Windows 8 approaching with its support of ARM I decided to resume my ARM studies and highly recommend this book:
ARM System Developer’s Guide: Designing and Optimizing System Software
My renewed interest in assembly language also coincides with joining Linkedin Assembly language coders group.
I also plan to create a separate version of my popular Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations book with ARM examples and an ARM section on Asmpedia. If time and resources permit, of course.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -