I started this blog because I found almost every book teaching assembly, reversing and debugging to be unacceptably inferior. My idea was to teach the mapping between c-code and assembly at compile time with easy understandable tutorials. Due to lack of time that work has been slacking behind a lot.
However, some weeks ago Dennis Yurichev solved the problem for now. His newly released (free) book Reverse Engineering for Beginners is a very good introduction to the compiler processes that map C to assembly.
It start with various instruction sets and covers up to ARM 64. Then moves on to some architecture specifics for ARM, discusses compiler optimization (including instrinsics) and instruction set extensions such as SIMD and FPU. Covers a good deal of debugging techniques as well as SMT-solvers. This is truly a fantastic alternative to the inferior beginner reversing books out there. Quite frankly, the only other books who match this book when it comes to focus on instruction sets and how processors and compilation really work are those written by the excellent russian reverse engineer Kris Kaspersky, like Code Optimization: Effective Memory Usage.
