Learn to Program with Assembly: Foundational Learning for New Programmers

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J. BartlettLearn to Program with Assemblyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7437-8_23

Nasm (Intel) Assembly Language Syntax

Jonathan Bartlett¹  

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Tulsa, OK, USA

 

This book has focused on the assembly language syntax used by the GNU Assembler, known as AT&T syntax, because it originated on Unix which was, at the time, developed by AT&T (the phone company). The reason for this is that it is the “native” syntax used in the Linux kernel and output by the GNU Compiler Collection. However, there is another syntax that is commonly used, which is known as “Nasm” Syntax (named after the popular assembler that uses it) or “Intel” syntax (because this is the syntax ...