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Beginning x64 Assembly Programming: From Novice to AVX Professional

Name: Beginning x64 Assembly Programming: From Novice to AVX Professional
Author: Jo Van Hoey
ISBN: 9781484250761

by Jo Van Hoey

October 2019

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407 pages

6h 50m

English

Apress

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J. Van HoeyBeginning x64 Assembly Programminghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5076-1_40

40. Using the Windows API

Jo Van Hoey¹

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Hamme, Belgium

The Windows application programming interface (API) is a set of functions that can be used by a developer to interact with the operating system. As mentioned in the previous chapter, syscalls are not a reliable way to communicate with the operating system, but Microsoft provides a large set of APIs to accomplish just about everything you could think of. The Windows API is written with the C programming language in mind, but if we comply with the calling conventions, we can easily use the Windows API in our assembler programs. The description of the Windows API can be found here (at ...

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Beginning x64 Assembly Programming: From Novice to AVX Professional

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40. Using the Windows API

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