Chapter 1. HELLO, WORLD OF ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE

HELLO, WORLD OF ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE

This chapter is a "quick-start" chapter that lets you start writing basic assembly language programs as rapidly as possible. This chapter does the following:

  • Presents the basic syntax of an HLA (High Level Assembly) program

  • Introduces you to the Intel CPU architecture

  • Provides a handful of data declarations, machine instructions, and high-level control statements

  • Describes some utility routines you can call in the HLA Standard Library

  • Shows you how to write some simple assembly language programs

By the conclusion of this chapter, you should understand the basic syntax of an HLA program and should understand ...

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