Re: Which 64 bit cpu assembler to use ?

["Star Liu" <minxinjianxin@gmail.com>]

I'm very happy to find more answers here, so i try to discuss it more :)
first, i think maybe it's necessory for me to post this topic here, for i'm a newbie, have few knowledge on linux, so i heavily depend on the debian system. if i ask questions at other places, they may not use debian, then their solution may not apply for me, or hard to apply for my poor knowledge.
i made some thinking on nasm, yasm and gas, finally i think it's a very bad thing for nasm and yasm to come out, for they don't provide much more improvement for gas, just some non-important syntax change, so i choose gas as my assembler, and it's very convinient to programming x86_64 assembly by gas and gcc.
i think it's necessory for a real software developer to know assembly in order to know clearly about how software works, i have been a microsoft platform software developer for years, and tired to be a slave of ms, so i jump to assembly now. :)
thanks for your suggestions, hope i will get more help here next time i encounter difficulties. :)

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Jack T Mudge III <jakykong@theanythingbox.com> wrote:

On Saturday 21 June 2008 09:14:31 pm Star Liu wrote:
> Greetings!
> I'm a newbie in assembly language programming, for I worked as a C#
> programmer on microsoft platform in the past years, but now I want to
> know clearly how operating system and softwares are executed, so I begin
> to learn assembly language programming, I have learned some 32 bit asm
> coding, and want to move to 64 bit coding. Is there any good toturial to
> follow? and which assembler should I use? (I have a amd64 etch installed
> for this task) Thanks!

This is a bit off-topic for this board -- this board is for debian package
sponsorship, and discussion related to maintaining debian packages.

http://linuxquestions.org has a forum about programming. Maybe ask there for
anything else you want to know (instead of being off-topic here)

However, I'll give you a couple pointers to get you started:
- nasm and yasm seem to be the assemblers available in Debian right now.
- get an emulator (I use Bochs), you won't have to reboot and you'll be able
to use a debugger.
- Look up http://www.linuxassembly.org/ (assembly programming in linux) and
http://www.osdever.net/ (all about writing operating systems)

- Jack Mudge
jakykong@theanythingbox.com



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