12.4 Target Language
The target language is x86 assembly language. We summarize here the language in the form of tables. The syntax for the assembly language used by us is known as the AT&T syntax. It is the one supported by the GNU tool chain that becomes standard with every Linux distribution. However, the official syntax for x86 assembly language (known as the Intel syntax) is different. It is the same assembly language for the same platform, but it looks different. See Section 12.11 for some of the more important differences.
12.4.1 x86 Instructions
We do not plan to give here a description of all of hundreds of instructions in the instruction set of x86 architecture, but only those which will be used in the assembly language outputs which ...
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