Re: I'd like to learn asm...

"A. Ecoffet" wrote:

Julienne Walker wrote :

I would recommend not restricting yourself just to NASM. There are far
more tutorials/books written for MASM or TASM, and aside from minor
syntactical details, the concepts are identical.

What book for exemple ?

You will need three books:

1. A book about the instruction set of the processor (a few hundred
pages)

There is only one book you should use: The CPU manual from
the manufacturer (Intel or AMD). You can download it from
Intel's website or order a printed version (don't know if
it is still free of charge).


2. A book about the OS interface.

If you are using Windows, best use Microsoft's online
documentation at msdn.com. But this is much more than a few
hundred pages of documentation like the CPU documentation,
so better start with assembly programming using the DOS
interface (which is also available in Windows).


3. A book about the assembler you use (a few dozen of pages)

This documentation should be part of the assembler distribution.
.

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