Re: Why doesn't this NASM program work? It loops endlessly

spamtrap_at_crayne.org
Date: 03/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 16:44:49 +0000 (UTC)

Lamp <spamtrap@crayne.org> wrote:

>>
>> Have you looked at my tutorial? It uses NASM and has lots of examples.
>>
>> http://www.drpaulcarter.com/pcasm

> I have started to read it, it is good, but it assumes one already has
> some knowledge in Assembler. You talk about segments, bss, text, etc,
> for example, but you don't explain what they are, if they are different
> from the MASM segments. You have spent for this topic only few lines. I
> need to understand the organization of an Asm program in Linux, the
> logic under it. A good book, but too Masm specific, was "Assembler
> Inside Out, Mc Graw-Hill".

> Francesco

I would beg to differ with you there. It assumes that one has
experience with C, but not assembly. 

-- 
Paul Carter

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