GNU assembly syntax
Abstract
This chapter describes the syntactical elements of assembly language programs and provides a basic description of what an assembler does. It then introduces some common GNU assembler directives.
Keywords
GNU assembler (GAS); Assembly; Variables; Constants; Filling; Aligning; Symbols; Functions; Objects; Macros; Labels; Comments; Operands; Instructions
All modern computers consist of three main components: the central processing unit (CPU), memory, and devices. It can be argued that the major factor that distinguishes one computer from another is the CPU architecture. The architecture determines the set of instructions that can be performed by the CPU. The human-readable language which is closest to the CPU architecture ...
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