[aklug] Re: first assembly program!

* Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> [120224 07:09]:
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> On 02/23/2012 05:02 PM, Shane Spencer wrote:
> > Very cool! You're gonna be the biggest, coolest, nerd ever soon..
> > Congrats :)
> >
> > Seriously tho.. very cool.
> >
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> Thanks! I believe it was Torvalds who once said:
  Nope.

> "Real men code in assembly."
  _I_ said it. :)
  And I used to be a real man.

> I find x86_64 assembly to be a lot of fun, especially with all those
> extra registers to work with.
  I used it for direct vido access back in 32-bit days on windoze.
  Linked into a C .exe file. C can do the same thing, but was much
  less efficient. I don't remember how to do it now, but my C api
  had a feature that enabled one to decompose C code into the
  underlying ASM code. It was fun to first write the vid access
  function in C, decompose to the ASM code and then write the ASM
  code from scratch. I recall that the hand-rolled ASM code was a
  fraction of the decomposed C code....

  Just saying ...

> After I get a decent familiarity with general Gnu assembler syntax, I
> want to move on to AVR assembly and try to program a micro-controller.
> I bought one of those nerdkits from nerdkits.com.
  solderless breadboards: cool!

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Tim 
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