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Re: Assembly Language for Beginners [pdf]

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Post by xfer » Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 4:12 PM UTC

I got interested in assembly fairly early on my programming career by playing wargames(io.smashthestack.org anyone?). Writing exploit payloads was very fun. After that in my career i have only written assembly to vectorize some code using neon.

I think the best reason to learn assembly is not to write rather be able to read compiler output.

Re: Assembly Language for Beginners [pdf]

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Post by pq0ak2nnd » Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 4:12 PM UTC

This is a great resource. I don't think it is for beginners, it is a bit overwhelming. But as a programmer who has to dive into asm every few months (on a variety of architectures!), this will be a very helpful reference to help me reset my frame of mind for the particular architecture.

Re: Assembly Language for Beginners [pdf]

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Post by sus_007 » Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 4:13 PM UTC

4llan wrote: post #16

vmateixeira wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fun fact: both books have precisely 1082 pages.

Fun fact: both books have precisely the same content

Fun fact: both sources have precisely the same favicon as well.

Re: Assembly Language for Beginners [pdf]

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Post by molteanu » Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 4:23 PM UTC

GnarfGnarf wrote: post #28

I actually got paid a salary for learning & programming in IBM mainframe assembler (BAL or Basic Assembly Language) in 1970, for an insurance company. The CPU memory was so small (32K, yes 32,768 bytes) that the only way we could squeeze enough functionality was to write in assembler, with overlays (no virtual memory). Debugging consisted of manually toggling hex data and instructions at the control panel. What a bla…

Thanks for sharing

Re: Assembly Language for Beginners [pdf]

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Post by mikehodgson » Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 4:32 PM UTC

paidleaf wrote: post #30

This isn't for beginners. What beginner's assembly text covers multiple architectures and assembly flavors? My recommendation for beginner's assembly on linux is to write toy code in C and then view the disassembly in gdb or objdump. You have options to switch to Intel syntax from GAS/AT&T if you want. I'm generally against using windows for anything, but Visual Studio has decent disassembly debug options where you c…

The book literally follows this process starting on page 5.

Re: Assembly Language for Beginners [pdf]

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Post by peter_retief » Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 4:33 PM UTC

Nice basic intro to assembler, as a person from some electronics background it fits with knowledge of simpler architectures

Re: Assembly Language for Beginners [pdf]

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Post by max_ » Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 4:45 PM UTC

Nice!

Re: Assembly Language for Beginners [pdf]

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Post by neuromantik8086 » Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 4:49 PM UTC

I feel like 6502 assembly is probably better for beginners, but that might be because that's what I'm trying to teach myself...

Re: Assembly Language for Beginners [pdf]

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Post by pro_zac » Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 4:52 PM UTC

neuromantik8086 wrote: post #38

I feel like 6502 assembly is probably better for beginners, but that might be because that's what I'm trying to teach myself...

What resources are you using to learn?

Re: Assembly Language for Beginners [pdf]

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Post by richfnelson » Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 4:53 PM UTC

Thanks for the recommendation.