Programming from the Ground Up for macOS (x86-64)

Porting the Programming from the Ground Up 1.0 book, by Jonathan Bartlett, to macOS Mojave, using x86-64 Assembly.

Translating the pgubook to the XNU kernel that powers macOS (formerly OS X). Targets 64-bit architecture and uses NASM assembler, with Intel syntax.

Toolchain:

Tested with:

References:

Useful info:

To use gdb on macOS, code signing is required. I found this StackOverflow post useful. The instruction I usign as codesign --entitlements gdb.xml -fs gdb_codesign $(which gdb), where gdb.xml is the one in the repo.

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
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.gitignore		.gitignore
LICENSE		LICENSE
Makefile		Makefile
README.md		README.md
add-year-error-exit.asm		add-year-error-exit.asm
add-year.asm		add-year.asm
alloc.asm		alloc.asm
break.c		break.c
concatenate.asm		concatenate.asm
count-chars.asm		count-chars.asm
error-exit.asm		error-exit.asm
exit.asm		exit.asm
exit_32.asm		exit_32.asm
factorial.asm		factorial.asm
gdb.xml		gdb.xml
hello-world-lib.asm		hello-world-lib.asm
hello-world-no-lib.asm		hello-world-no-lib.asm
maximum.asm		maximum.asm
power.asm		power.asm
printf-example.asm		printf-example.asm
read-record.asm		read-record.asm
read-records-alloc.asm		read-records-alloc.asm
read-records.asm		read-records.asm
reading.asm		reading.asm
record-def.asm		record-def.asm
sbrk.c		sbrk.c
sbrk_function.c		sbrk_function.c
toupper.asm		toupper.asm
writable.asm		writable.asm
write-newline.asm		write-newline.asm
write-record.asm		write-record.asm
write-records.asm		write-records.asm
xnu.asm		xnu.asm

nlharri/pgubook-macos-x86-64