Re: Windows 32 & 64 bit Assembly

For win64 assembly, here is the most useful link in my opinion.
http://blogs.msdn.com/freik/archive/category/12430.aspx
This is FreiK's blog, he is an x64 guru for Windows and works for MSFT.
The second blog in which he outlines the differences between x86 and
x64 ABI , there are many links to the x64 ABI in this blog, and some
pretty good useful information.
x64 == AMD64

If you, in the course of your work with win64 at any point of time, get
in touch with him personally, then I would recommend you ask him for a
pdf(or similar) ABI document if it exists, because that would just be
great for other programmers.

I would also suggest you get a list of NT API calls for Windows. If you
search on this group for NT API, you will find articles and links for
up-to-date NT API calls. Since you want to stick to Windows native
assembly, this is the closest you can get. These are equivalent to
system calls on *BSD or GNU/Linux (in unistd.h). There is however the
Win64 API which is like the Win32 API, i.e a user-interface sitting on
top of the NT Kernel, but then using assembly to do Win64 API calls is
pointless as you will be a faster programmer if you use a higher (than
assembly) level language like C instead (in my opinion).

Regards,
Vikas

bwaichu{at}yahoo.com wrote:
I am in the process of writing some assembly code for *BSD amd64, and
I would like to write the similiar code for windows.

What are good resources for windows assembly? Ideally, I would like to
be
able to practice some reverse engineering of window patches in the
future,
so I want to stick as close to native windows assembly as possible.

Thanks!

.

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