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| | Assembly language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Assembly language, commonly called assembly, asm or symbolic machine code, is a human-readable notation for the machine language that a specific computer architecture uses. | | | Another common area of assembly language use is in the system BIOS of a computer. | | | Assembly language is also valuable in reverse engineering, since many programs are distributed only in machine code form, and machine code is usually easy to translate into assembly language and carefully examine in this form, but very difficult to translate into a higher-level language. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language
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| | Assembly Language |
| | Assembly languages are still machine specific and hence the program will have to be re-written if it is to be implemented on another type of computer. | | | Assembly languages still require that the programmer should have a good knowledge of the internal structure of the computer. | | | Assembly languages are still used in some time-critical programs since they give the programmer very precise control of what exactly happens inside the computer. |
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http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~pjbk/pathways/cpp1/node21.html
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| | What is assembly language? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary |
| | A programming language that is once removed from a computer's machine language. | | | Assembly languages have the same structure and set of commands as machine languages, but they enable a programmer to use names instead of numbers. | | | Programmers still use assembly language when speed is essential or when they need to perform an operation that isn't possible in a high-level language. |
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http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/a/assembly_language.html
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| | ONLamp.com -- Why Learning Assembly Language Is Still a Good Idea |
| | No, the real reason assembly language programs tend to be more efficient than programs written in other languages is because assembly language forces the programmer to consider how the underlying hardware operates with each machine instruction they write. | | | However, the reason such software is efficient isn't because the implementation language imparts some magical efficiency properties to that software -- it's perfectly possible to write inefficient software in assembly language. | | | So even if the programmer never actually writes applications in assembly language, the knowledge makes the programmer aware of the problems with certain inefficient sequences so they can avoid them in their high-level code. |
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http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/05/06/writegreatcode.html
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| | Art of Assembly Language:Forward |
| | Assembly language programs are often less than one-half the size of comparable HLL programs. | | | While certain programs may not benefit much from implementation in assembly, you can speed up many programs by a factor of five or ten over their HLL counterparts by careful coding in assembly language; even greater improvement is possible if you're not using an optimizing compiler. | | | Assembly language programmers, on the other hand, have been known to rewrite an integer output routine every time they need one. |
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http://maven.smith.edu/~thiebaut/ArtOfAssembly/fwd/fwd.html#61
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| | The Old Joel on Software Forum - Assembly language |
| | Having assembly language skills on your resume will show people that, even beyond having a good understanding of low-level machine function, that you are really interested in computer science and have devoted a considerable amount of your time toward seeking more knowledge. | | | I think assembly language is great for understanding computers better. | | | But since I already have a vague general understanding of assembly language (which I think has been extremely valuable) I wondered if I should invest time going into more depth and detail. |
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http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware?cmd=show&ixPost=26214
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| | Introduction to Assembly Language |
| | Programs written in high level languages (especially object oriented programming languages) are much easier and less expensive to maintain than similar programs written in assembly language (and for a successful software project, the vast majority of the work and expense is in maintenance, not initial development). | | | Assembly language is much harder to program than high level languages. | | | In contrast to high level languages, data structures and program structures in assembly language are created by directly implementing them on the underlying hardware. |
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http://www.osdata.com/topic/language/asm/asmintro.htm
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| | X86 assembly language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Most modern x86 processors translate their instructions to one or more RISC-like "micro-ops" before they execute them, allowing the substeps of complex instructions to be executed in parallel in a superscalar fashion, rather than just being able to execute instructions in parallel as the original Pentium could do. | | | The x86 processor and instruction set design is CISC; however, in the latter half of the 1990s the internal architecture moved towards being more of a RISC or VLIW design. | | | This bug-mode is sometimes called unreal mode by assembly programmers. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_assembly_language
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| | Assembly Language Techniques for the Solaris OS, x86 Platform Edition |
| | Assembly code is harder for code maintainers to understand. | | | Also, be sure that the performance of your assembly code is compared to an optimized C language equivalent. | | | My focus is to help others not just figure out how to integrate assembly language into their projects, but also help demonstrate that assembly language is not always the answer for better performance. |
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http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/x86_assembly_lang.html
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| | Jeff Duntemann's Assembly Language Books and Links |
| | Macros are a mechanism allowing code re-use in assembly work, and they foster a philosophy of "define once, use everywhere" that gives you the programmer another defense against both duplication of effort and the bugs that come of writing the same sequence of assembly instructions over and over again, which is dumb. | | | In assembly language, if you know where your operands are, you're three quarters of the way to anywhere else you might want to be. | | | This is a radically different approach from most "intro" assembly books, which begin by teaching you the MOV instruction, and then perhaps the ADD instruction, with little or no discussion of the context in which assembly language operates. |
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http://www.duntemann.com/assembly.htm
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| | x86 Assembly Language FAQ - General Part 1/3 |
| | Assembly language is very flexible and powerful; anything that the hardware of the computer is capable of doing can be done in assembly. | | | When you program in assembly language, you are programming on the machine language level. | | | From: raymoon@ms1.dgsys.com (Raymond Moon) Newsgroups: alt.lang.asm, comp.lang.asm.x86 Subject: x86 Assembly Language FAQ - General Part 1/3 Date: 21 Mar 2000 23:02:28 GMT Message-ID: <8b8v24$n7i$1@news.dgsys.com> Reply-To: raymoon@moonware.dgsys.com Summary: This is the FAQ for the x86 Assembly Language programmers for the alt.lang.asm and comp.lang.asm.x86 newsgroups. |
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http://www.faqs.org/faqs/assembly-language/x86/general/part1
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| | PowerPC assembly |
| | Assembly language is the programming language closest to the hardware, which makes it a natural last resort in such situations. | | | Assembly language is not widely known among the programming community these days, and PowerPC assembly is even more exotic. | | | However, like learning any (spoken) language, there are certain words that are important and that you should know, and others that can be safely ignored until you've figured out more important features of the code. |
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http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-ppc
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| | Assembly Language programming |
| | Assembly language programming is writing machine instructions in mnemonic form, using an assembler to convert these mnemonics into actual processor instructions and associated data. | | | The chosen language will undoubtably need to be converted into the appropriate binary bit-patterns which make sense to the target processor (the processor on which the software will be run). | | | Asemblers are programs which generate machine code instructions from a source code program written in assembly language. |
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http://www.xploiter.com/mirrors/asm/asm_1.htm
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| | FreeBSD Assembly Language Programming |
| | The most important tool for assembly language programming is the assembler, the software that converts assembly language code into machine language. | | | Assembly language programing under Unix is highly undocumented. | | | The microprocessor is an example of a finite state machine: Our assembly language code is assembled to machine language in which some assembly language code produces a single byte of machine language, while others produce several bytes. |
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http://www.int80h.org/bsdasm
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| | The Object Oriented Programming Web - Assembly Directory |
| | The book is divided into seven main sections: a section on machine organization and architecture, a section on basic assembly language, a section on intermediate assembly language, a section on interrupts and resident programs, a section covering IBM PC hardware peculiarities, a section on optimization, and various appendices. | | | The document has the primordial function of introducing you to assembly language programming, and it has been thought for those people who have never worked with this language. | | | An old but comprehensive database of assembly language instructions and operations. |
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http://oopweb.com/Assembly/Files/Assembly.html
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| | HLA: The High Level Assembly Programming Language Linux Journal |
| | The HLA (High Level Assembly) language was developed as a tool to help teach assembly language programming and machine organization to University students at the University of California, Riverside. | | | Real assembly language programmers don't need C++ style crutches (which is what HLA looks like) and unless one is prepared to fully understand the underlying machine architecture, one will *NEVER* be any good at assembly language. | | | The High Level Assembly (HLA) programming language began at UCR in 1996 as a project of computer science professor Randall Hyde. |
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8408
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| | Whiz Kid Technomagic |
| | Indeed, writing assembly language programs for Windows 95 is as easy as writing C programs, and easier than writing C++ programs. | | | And since assembly language programs are considerably faster than programs written in other languages, the difference in speed of image filtering is mind boggling. | | | Not only is assembly language easier in Windows 95 than it was in Windows 3.x, it is, in my opinion, even easier than it was under MS DOS. |
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http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/7394
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| | Assembly Language |
| | One of the never-attained "Holy Grails" of computing, the hoped-for "UNiversal Computer Oriented Language," a sort of universal assembly language that should be a good intermediary to allow running any computer language on any kind of computer hardware.&; | | | For instance, in cryptographic software, it is not uncommon for there to be algorithms deployed in tuned assembly language for the "block" crypto algorithm.
| | | I rather prefer the idea of using high level languages that abstract away from the "physical" abstractions of registers and memory addressing.&; |
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http://linuxfinances.info/info/assembler.html
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| | Introduction to Linux Intel Assembly Language |
| | Using the Microsoft or Turbo compilers, for example, assembly language source files have the suffix.asm, object files have the suffix.obj, etc. | | | The intended audience is students in the first week or two of a computer systems/assembly language course. | | | Moreover, we are telling the assembler that in our assembly code below, the first of these four long words will be referred to as x. |
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http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/50/LinuxAssembly.html
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| | Assembly Language Windows Applications |
| | Even though Assembly Language programming seems to be a lost and dying art, the Web is chock full of interesting and useful resources. | | | "The Art of Assembly Language Programming" is a textbook on machine organization and assembly language programming developed and written by Randall Hyde for his CS264 (Assembly Language Programming) course at Cal Poly Pomona and US Riverside. | | | The world has a new Intel-compatible operating system written in 100% pure assembly language. |
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http://grc.com/smgassembly.htm
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| | Assembly Language Library by David Parker |
| | Everything you need to program in assembly language for DOS or Windows (and probably for UNIX, Linux, etc.) is available for free on the internet. | | | One of the classic assembly language tricks is taking the absolute value of a 2's complement integer. | | | I always write my commercially available programs entirely in assembly language. |
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http://www.dpgraph.com/assembly.html
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| | Myron Berg's Assembly Language number input and output |
| | The assembly language code for the program is found below. | | | Simple input and output in assembly language for floating point and integer double word sized values. | | | They allow easy demonstration and use by assembly language classes of floating point input and output. |
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http://www2.dsu.nodak.edu/users/mberg/assembly/numbers/Numbers.html
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| | Assembly tutorials and links |
| | The generated assembly listings are primarily used to improve your understanding of Windows programs, the internals of Windows itself, and help identify and clarify important undocumented services and functions. | | | Claims: a missing ring in the history of programming languages, cross-platform ASM with almost 1:1 language-to-CPU instruction ratio, new way to address memory units (n-flat address space), easier than Assembly, but still low-level interfaced, open source. | | | Including: like buffered file I/O,formatted string output, memory allocation, etc. All routines are highly optimized for size and speed, and average only 60 bytes each. |
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http://www.codebox.8m.com/assembly.htm
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| | Assembly languages |
| | Frequently asked questions on 80x86 assembly language in general. | | | 80x86 assembly language tutorial by Gavin Estey, the maintainer of the rec.games.programmer FAQ. | | | Gavin Estey's excellent collection of programming resources (especially information about games programming). |
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http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/language/asm
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| | Assembly Language Repository |
| | Some is useful in its own right but most of these programs were written in response to questions on the Fidonet 80XXX echo (a pre-Usenet assembly language discussion forum) and so they were mostly intended to show an idea or approach relating to assembly language programming. | | | assembly language program which shows the current date and time in a form identical to that used by Posix ctime() | | | In other words, while they might actually do something, they're mostly intended to be read by humans rather than run by computers. |
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http://www.beroset.com
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| | 8-bit ATARI Assembly Language |
| | Writing relocatable code in 6502 assembly language has always been difficult. | | | If you ever have occasion to write relocatable code for use in machine language subroutines for BASIC, or want to, below are some routines and tools that might help. | | | List of the sites on the Atari 8-bit Computer WebRing |
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http://oort.com/turbots/asm.htm
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| | Assembly Tutorials |
| | This is an introduction for people who want to program in assembler language. | | | Contains a good deal of Assembly information including information about the DOS interrupt 21H, flags, processor instructions, and more. | | | If you are looking for information on assembly programming under UNIX-like operating systems (Linux/BSD/BeOS/etc), this is the right place to be. |
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http://www.techtutorials.info/assembly.html
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| | PC Assembly Language |
| | The tutorial has extensive coverage of interfacing assembly and C code and so might be of interest to C programmers who want to learn about how C works under the hood. | | | All the examples use the free NASM (Netwide) assembler. | | | I taught Computer Science at the University of Central Oklahoma for 10 years. |
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http://www.drpaulcarter.com/pcasm
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| | Parrot Assembly Language - |
| | It makes sense, then, to define an assembly language for it for those people who may need to generate bytecode directly, rather than indirectly via the perl (or any other) language. | | | Parrot's bytecode can be thought of as a form of machine language for a virtual super CISC machine. | | | Maintainer: Dan Sugalski Class: Internals PDD Number: 6 Version: 1.8 Status: Developing Last Modified: 02 December 2002 PDD Format: 1 Language: English |
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http://www.parrotcode.org/docs/pdd/pdd06_pasm.html
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| | ASM Tutorial/Ready to Start! |
| | These are some basic things you need to know when you want to program in Assembly. | | | main proc : Code must be in procedures, just like in C or any other language. | | | I'll also explain the Interrupts and interrupt table. |
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~smit/asm01001.htm
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| | Typed Assembly Language |
| | Moreover, the typing constructs are expressive enough to encode most source language programming features including records and structures, arrays, higher-order and polymorphic functions, exceptions, abstract data types, subtyping, and modules. | | | Just as importantly, TAL is flexible enough to admit many low-level compiler optimizations. | | | We have implemented a variant of TAL for Intel's IA32 architecture called TALx86, and have written a compiler for a safe C-like language called Popcorn to TALx86. |
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http://www.cs.cornell.edu/talc
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| | Assembly Language (x86) Resources |
| | Assembly Language for Intel-Based Computers (3rd edition) book by Kip R. Irvine. | | | Intel Assembly Language Sources list by Kip R. Irvine. | | | Randell Hyde at Riverside: The Art of Assembly Language Programming. |
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http://grail.cba.csuohio.edu/~somos/asmx86.html
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| | Assembly Language |
| | The Assembly Language database, Copyright (C) 1987 by Peter Norton Computing, Inc., was written by Craig Stinson, Brad Kingsbury, Kevin Goldstein, John Socha, and Peter Norton | | | This page last updated on Fri Nov 30 10:49:50 MSK 2001 |
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http://members.tripod.com/~Vitaly_Filatov/ng/asm
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| | assembly - best of the web - embedded assembly language |
| | assembly - best of the web - embedded assembly language | | | Over 80% of ASIC and FPGA designs reuse RTL from a previous design thus, engineering managers recycle RTL to hit tighter... |
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http://www.cera2.com/assembly.htm
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| | Linux Assembly HOWTO |
| | This document describes how to program in assembly language using | | | Included material may or may not be applicable to other hardware and/or software platforms. | | | This is the Linux Assembly HOWTO, version 0.6g. |
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http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Assembly-HOWTO
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| | Assembly Language Manual |
| | If you already know a high-level programming language such as C or Pascal, this manual will take you step-by-step through the mysteries of assembly language programming. | | | Don't try to learn assbembler as your first programming language -- you will find it much easier to learn C or Pascal first. | | | You are visitor number 6002 to this page since 1/1/2004. |
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http://members.cruzio.com/~bluejay/manual.html
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