C Programming

B. Kernighan and D. Ritchie, C Programming Language, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 1988. [PDF]

Resources

1. Number representations

• Floating-point representation in section 3.5 in Patterson and Hennessy
• Chapters 9,10.2-10.4 in Stallings
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-precision_floating-point_format
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision_floating-point_format
• https://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/ehchua/programming/java/datarepresentation.html

2. von Newmann model

• 3.1-3.3 in Stallings
• Chapter 5 in M. Schneider and J. Gersting, Invitation to Computer Science, 5th edition, Course Technology, 2010 (available in the Internet).
• Intel, ARM: ‘Von Neuman Architecture’ Here to Stay, For Now, Says Bernstein (http://www.barrons.com/articles/intel-arm-von-neuman-architecture-here-to-stay-for-now-says-bernstein-1465242162)
• Understanding the MAR and the MDR (https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/sum2003/cmsc311/Notes/Overall/mar.html)

3. Instruction sets

• MIPS32 cheat sheet