Machine-Level OOP, Exceptions, and Concurrency
by Randall Hyde
Available June 2026, 792 pp.
ISBN-13:
9781718504349
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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. Objects, exceptions, closures, coroutines, concurrency: Each is dissected at the instruction level, with every decision made visible and explicit.
What you’ll build:
- Object-oriented programs in MASM: vtables, method dispatch, and inheritance, from scratch by hand
- Windows structured exception handling (SEH) installed and managed at the instruction level
- Thunks, closures, and iterators that behave like higher-order functions
- Coroutines, generators, and fibers without resorting to HLL code
- Concurrent programs with real synchronization primitives, directly from assembly
- Unicode string handling done correctly, at the level where most code gets it wrong
- Domain-specific macro languages inside MASM, built from first principles
If you already know assembly and want to stop taking the hard parts on faith, this is the book.
Author Bio
Randall Hyde has spent decades writing assembly for medical devices, nuclear systems, and embedded hardware where correctness is not optional. He taught assembly language programming at the university level and is the author of The Art of Assembly Language, The Art of ARM Assembly, and the Write Great Code series, all from No Starch Press.
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Advanced Macros
Chapter 2: Unicode Strings
Chapter 3: Transcendental Functions
Chapter 4: Advanced Procedures
Chapter 5: Concurrent Programming
Chapter 6: Object-Oriented Programming With MASM
Chapter 7: Exception Handling
Chapter 8: Thunks and Closures
Chapter 9: Advanced Parameter Implementation
Chapter 10: Iterators
Chapter 11: Coroutines, Generators, and Fibers
Appendix A: ASCII Character Set
Appendix B: Glossary
Appendix C: Installing and Using Visual Studio
Index
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