Assembly Language on the PC
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| I would quite like to learn this, for low level optimisation purposes, anyone know of any good sites/books? |
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| I would suggest Flat Assembler as your tool of choice. It's free, well designed and it's what BlitzMax uses to assemble it's code. Start at flatassembler.net. There should be some intro tutorials avalable from there. |
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| Looking now... thanks John. |
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| In all reality though, most modern C computers are already doing a lot of optimization on the backend, it are a *whole* lot more readable than plain ASM... Unless you're writing something small where execution speed is more important than anything else, ASM isn't exactly the most practical language to program in anymore. (Plus it's a lot easier to port C to 64 bit than a native ASM program) |
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| Here are some links I've picked up along the way, not that I've ever tried to actually learn x86 assembly or will ever do so... Some introductory stuff... http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AoA/index.html http://www.csn.ul.ie/~darkstar/assembler/ http://www.drpaulcarter.com/pcasm/ http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/language/asm/asmtut/asm1.htm http://www.winasm.net/ More advanced... http://www.jegerlehner.ch/intel/ http://www.df.lth.se/~john_e/fr_gems.html http://www.agner.org/optimize/ It might be an idea to try starting with a simpler processor, eg. Z80, 6502, etc, to get the basics, using a Speccy/C64/Amstrad emulator, especially as you can usually call asm code from their BASIC environments. |
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| Thanks James, that's a great set of links, just what I was look for. Well, I am an old hand with 8/16bit assembly and recently surprised myself with how much I actually remember. I feel its one of those things that's good to have under you belt, very handy to know you can touch metal if need be. I will use Delphi, because its got an easy in-line mode (or maybe have a look at the hybrid HLA language for learning). Thanks to all, |
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