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The Art of 64-Bit Assembly, Volume 1
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The Art of 64-Bit Assembly, Volume 1

by Randall Hyde
October 2021
Beginner
1032 pages
24h 43m
English
No Starch Press
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16 Stand-Alone Assembly Language Programs

Until now, this book has relied upon a C/C++ main program to call the example code written in assembly language. Although this is probably the biggest use of assembly language in the real world, it is also possible to write stand-alone code (no C/C++ main program) in assembly language.

In the context of this chapter, stand-alone assembly language programs means that you’re writing an executable program in assembly that does not directly link into a C/C++ program for execution. Without a C/C++ main program calling your assembly code, you’re not dragging along the C/C++ library code and runtime system, ...

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