#TOLH15 Review

First hour

Linux (mostly just questions)

• Shell Commands
• cp, mv, rm, cd
• cat, less, head, tail, grep, sort, cut, uniq
• chmod

Bits and Bytes

• & | ^ ~ << >>
• Pointers
• Two's complement
• Sign extension, casting, unsigned, truncation, extension
• Useful material: F07 and F08

Floating point

• Notation
• Denormalized numbers
• Binary representation

Second hour

Assembly

• Instructions
• Decoding assembly programs
• Function call syntax and conventions (prologue, epilogue)
• The Stack
• x86
• another guide

Memory

• Addressing
• Analysis of C programs
• Endianness
• ....

Third hour

Hard disks

• Sectors
• RAID
• cover F20

Cache memory

• Locality

Authors

• Hlynur Óskar Guðmundsson
• James Elías Sigurðarson - Table of contents