General Information
My Information
Name: | Jonathan Misurda |
Office: | 6203 Sennott Square |
Phone: | (412) 624-8408 |
Email: | jmisurda@cs.pitt.edu |
Office Hours: | Mon, Wed: 1:30 – 2:30pm Tue, Thu: 12:30 – 2:30pm |
You can find a copy of the syllabus here.
Announcements
(07/09/13) — The test driver for your project is up. You can copy it to your current directory by:
cp /u/SysLab/shared/mallocdrv.c .
Make sure to include the dot at the end.
(07/15/13) — Project 4 is assigned, due Sunday, July 28, by midnight. The assignment sheet can and associated files can be found below.
(07/09/13) — All of the slides are up for the second midterm. A few sample problems for the second midterm exam can be found here. After you try it, you can find the answers here.
(07/01/13) — Project 3 is assigned, due Sunday, July 14, by midnight. The assignment sheet can be found below.
(06/25/13) — Here's a sample minimal write-up for project 2 if you're wondering how to do it. You don't have to follow this format exactly, it's just an example.
(06/17/13) — Project 2 is assigned, due Sunday, June 30, by midnight. The assignment sheet can be found below.
(06/02/13) — I am providing two OGG files (a form of music file) called with.ogg (that has a tag) and none.ogg (that has no tag) to test your project on. You can copy them to your directory by:
cp ~jrmst106/public/cs449/*.ogg .
The dot at the end is critical, as it represents the current directory name. Note that the files have been shrunk to fit better in your AFS quota and likely won't play anymore. This won't affect your project.
(05/26/13) — Project 1 is assigned, due Sunday, June 9, by midnight. The assignment sheet can be found below.
(05/24/13) — My office hours are posted above. Miao's will be:
Tuesday 11am–1pm and Wednesday 11am–12pm
(05/14/13) — Welcome to CS 449 Summer Term (2137)
Text, Slides, and Extra Materials
Topic | Slides (PDF) | Links |
Binary Formats and Linking | Slides | 20 part blog entry on linking (PDF) |
x86 Assembly | Slides | AT&T Syntax |
Function Calls and Calling Convention | Slides 1 Slides 2 |
CS 447 Appendix A |
Processes and Memory Management | Slides | Linux Address Space Layout |
Conditional Compilation Makefiles and Multi-file Development |
Slides | Chapter 18 in the C Textbook Chapter 10 in the C Textbook |
Midterm 2
Topic | Slides (PDF) | Links |
System Calls & Signals | Slides (PDF) | Signals |
Device Drivers under Linux | Slides (PDF) | LLD Chapter 1 (PDF) LLD Chapter 2 (PDF) |
Threads | Slides (PDF) | |
pthreads | Slides (PDF) | More on pthreads ALP chapter on pthreads (PDF) |
Synchronization | Slides (PDF) | Handout (PDF) |
Networks and Berkeley Sockets | Slides (PDF) | Sockets |
Buffers, Errors and Robust Programming | Buffering Slides (PDF) Errors Slides (PDF) |
Ten Commandments for C Programmers |
Final Exam (review slides PDF)
Projects
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Project 4:
/dev/pi
- QEMU (For everyone, includes disk and Windows executable)
- For Mac users: Q.app. If that is down, try this mirror
- Project 3: A custom malloc()
- Project 2: What's the password?
- Project 1: Blackjack & ID3 Tag Editor
Links
Reference- C Language
- x86 Instruction Set
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Download putty: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
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Unix Command Reference (from CSSD): Here