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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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Foreword

Assembly language programmers often hear the question, “Why would you bother when there are so many other languages that are much easier to write and to understand?” There has always been one answer: you write assembly language because you can.

Free of any other assumptions, free of artificial structuring, and free of the restrictions that so many other languages impose on you, you can create anything that is within the capacity of the operating system and the processor hardware. The full capacity of the x86 and later x64 hardware is available to the programmer. Within the boundaries of the operating system, any structure that is imposed, is imposed by the programmer in the code design and layout that they choose to use.

There have ...

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