SPARC Assembly Language

Mark Smotherman
Clemson University

(under construction)

For several years I have been teaching a course on SPARC assembly language. I'm collecting here notes from that course that I hope will be useful for others in learning the SPARC architecture and writing SPARC assembly language programs.

• A programmer's view of the SPARC architecture
• SPARC in a nutshell (in postscript; found years ago on web and have lost citation)
• SPARC v9 architecture and UltraSPARC

Notes on Writing Programs in SPARC Assembly Language

• introduction
• assembly language structure and assembling
• control structures
• operations
• memory
• subroutines and register windows
• I/O
• common errors and resulting error messages

Example SPARC Programs

• subroutine: print the sum of array elements
• function and test driver: string length
• subroutine and test driver: capitalize letters
• main program: print command line arguments

[Mark's homepage] [CPSC homepage] [Clemson Univ. homepage]

mark@cs.clemson.edu