Basic yet thorough assembly tutorial (linux)?

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I want to learn some practical assembly language having just learned the basic concepts in class. Are there any decent books or tutorials (nasm, etc) that would be recommended?

I didn't like either of the top 2 linked tutorials, and the 3rd link is a link to this post. While I find keyword advise helpful, linking to Google directly like that can be extremely annoying for people that found this page via google. — CornSmith, Jan 30 '14 at 01:48

score 26 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 11 '17 at 12:10

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PC Assembly Language is my favorite resource on assembly programming. It's modern, free, and covers a variety of topics. It uses NASM and the examples are available for Linux (among several other systems).

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pcarter

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answered May 07 '09 at 21:03

Ayman Hourieh

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score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 12 '09 at 11:06

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http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Assembly

answered Jul 12 '09 at 11:06

plan9assembler

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score 7 · Answer 3 · answered May 08 '09 at 17:22

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I agree that PC Assembly Language is very good. Other good ones using GAS are:

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Professional Assembly Language is a great book, I recommend it, too – Johnd May 10 '09 at 23:22

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 08 '10 at 06:47

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"what is the point in learning assembly just for the heck of it? "

Because you get to learn HOW the CPU works and get a better understanding of the system. I would say understanding assembler is in itself practical.

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 09 '11 at 17:34

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http://www.duntemann.com/assembly.html

I recommend Jeff Duntemann's Assembly Language Step By Step, Third Edition. It was my first introduction to asm, but is nice and readable and fairly modern and up to date.

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 27 '10 at 14:11

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I would recommend the assembly tutorials page at http://pickatutorial.com

I hope it helps.

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Tom · Answer 7 · 2009-05-08T18:01:16.233

I recommend the official Intel manuals. You can request the hard copy on Intel's website.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_assembly_language#External_links

* Intel 64 and IA-32 Software Developer Manuals
* AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 1: Application Programming (PDF)
* AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 2: System Programming (PDF)
* AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 3: General-Purpose and System Instructions (PDF)
* AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 4: 128-Bit Media Instructions (PDF)
* AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 5: 64-Bit Media and x87 Floating-Point Instructions (PDF)

Some resources from my personal friend, Google:

Function calling convention:

http://unixwiz.net/techtips/win32-callconv-asm.html

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/ug/asm/calling.html

Brief tutorial

http://www.csn.ul.ie/~darkstar/assembler/

Using SSE

http://www.neilkemp.us/v4/articles/sse_tutorial/sse_tutorial.html

Basic yet thorough assembly tutorial (linux)?

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