Chapter 2. Assembly and Reverse Engineering Basics

Introduction

In this chapter we will introduce basic items, providing a brief introduction to assembly and the Intel architecture processor and covering various other concepts that will help ease you into the subject matter. This book focuses on 32-bit Intel architecture (IA-32) assembly and deals with both the Windows and Linux operating systems. The reader is expected to be at least mildly familiar with IA-32 assembly (although ...

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