Re: Assembly Language


Subject: Re: Assembly Language
From: civileme (civileme@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Wed Jan 09 2002 - 10:23:38 AKST


On Wednesday 09 January 2002 09:10 am, Justin Dieters wrote:
> Hello all. I was hoping someone could give me some help here. I am taking
> a class in which we are doing some assembly programming. The professor
> recommends using Microsoft's MASM, but we can use whatever we want, as long
> as it's for the Intel x86 series. My question then is what is a good
> (better?) alternative to this in Linux? I'm new to assembly, so I'm not
> sure what I need. Searching through my SuSE packages, I see a few that
> look like they would work called "asl" and "as86" (IIRC)
>
> Any reccommendations for either of these or something else entirely?
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
> enderak@yahoo.com
dev86 does the old 8086 code (like 16-bit for BIOS writing)
gcc has its own built-in assembler
nasm, the netwide assembler is quite nice and rather well documented.

All of these should be downloadable from many places, including all
MandrakeLinux mirrors if your taste runs to rpms of the version 4 or higher.

Civileme



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