Jun 16, 2016 · I'm very curious how assembly languages work- I remain general because I'm not talking only about intel x86 assembly (although it's the only one I'm remotely familiar with). To be a bit more …

Oct 5, 2010 · Not all the instructions of an assembly language have direct replacement in others, and in general porting assembly code from an architecture to another is usually a hard and difficult work. …

Dec 4, 2018 · This should be described in the documentation for any assembler that has an and instruction. It does a bit-wise Boolean "and" between two operands. In other words, corresponding …

Aug 10, 2009 · Assembly language is a convenience mechanism over the machine language. With assembly language you use mnemonic sequences instead of numeric operation codes and can use …

I decided to learn Assembly language. The main reason to do so is being able to understand disassembled code and maybe being able to write more efficient parts of code (for example, through …

Dec 8, 2009 · Note that most high level language compilers compile first to assembly code, which is then compiled by an separate assembler. So an (optimal) assembler program can never be slower than a …

Mar 21, 2011 · An assembly language is more than just a superset of the instruction set: it's a way of generating object files, symbols, debug info, linkage, and also to have some minimal structured …

Feb 17, 2009 · Most of these answers talk about the stack as it is used by languages, in particular they talk about passing arguments on the stack. In many CPUs this is just to make implementing …

Sep 28, 2018 · I am trying to understand how the assembly language works for a micro-computer architecture class, and I keep facing different syntaxes in examples: sub $48, %esp mov %eax, …

May 26, 2023 · Assembly language in common English is often called Assembler. Assemblator seems to be a creative word, born out of necessity to reduce confusion caused by missusing the other terms or …