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The Art of 64-Bit Assembly, Volume 2
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The Art of 64-Bit Assembly, Volume 2

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Machine-Level OOP, Exceptions, and Concurrency

Available June 2026, 792 pp.

Contents

Download Chapter 1: Advanced Macros

You can ask an AI to explain how vtables work in x86. It will give you something that sounds right. What it won’t give you is what Windows actually expects the vtable to look like, why method dispatch behaves the way it does at the instruction level, or what breaks when you deviate from convention. This volume of The Art of 64-Bit Assembly closes the gap between a plausible explanation and genuine understanding.

Every chapter takes a construct you’ve used in C++, Python, or Rust, strips away the runtime, and rebuilds it from scratch in MASM, running under Windows.…

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