Ask HN: Should I use K&R to learn C?

Re:Ask HN: Should I use K&R to learn C? by alfiedotwtf on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @09:29AM (#9333840)

I would recommend "A Reference Manual" by Harbison and Steele jr over K&R...

But to be honest, if you want to do reverse engineering, I would instead pick up a copy of "80386 Programmer's Manual" from Intel as you'll be living in assembly.

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Re:Ask HN: Should I use K&R to learn C? by __revrs__ on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @09:40AM (#9333894)

Did a quick search and found it: http://www.logix.cz/michal/doc/i386/

I must ask though and I don't mean this in a challenging way but isn't this teaching ASM for an old cpu? I'm largely ignorant of ASM so feel free to correct me. I just don't see the point of learning asm for that (As I believe that ASM changes from cpu to cpu).

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Re:Ask HN: Should I use K&R to learn C? by alfiedotwtf on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @03:24AM (#9339194)

It will give you the foundation to advance to modern day Intels. You won't last if you jump straight to x86_64

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