It's funny to see this link come up on HN, because I wrote this book (or much of it) years ago as a college student. I was taking some courses on microprocessor architectures and assembly code, and was in the middle of reading Reversing by Eldad Eilam (which had just come out at the time). I had a mantra back then that the best way to learn a subject was to try and teach it, so I wrote this and several other wikibooks as sort of a study aide for my classes. This also explains why the material appears to cover barely a semester's worth of material and why my name ("Whiteknight") doesn't appear in the edit history after graduation in 2008.<p>Despite the relatively thin and incomplete coverage of the material, I've heard from several people over the years who appreciated the work as a nice introduction to the topic and even once received a job offer because of it (which didn't work out, for a variety of reasons). All things considered, if I had to change anything it would be the title to make it a little more focused. It's not really a book about disassembly so much as it is an introduction to what high-level language features look like when translated into non-optimized x86 assembly code. Find me a short, catchy title that accurately describes that, and you win some kind of prize.<p>I doubt I'll ever get back to this book either. I haven't worked with this material at all since school, and don't feel like I have up-to-date knowledge of the subject. Unless somebody else wants to jump in and fill it out, it will probably stay the way you see it now.<p>I'm glad to see that this book is still around and I'm glad that people are benefiting from it in some small way. I know it doesn't cover nearly what would be needed for a real book on the subject (I do still recommend Eilam's Reversing for book-o-philes) but I think it should be a decent stepping stone to pique interest and get people moving on towards more in-depth treatments.