[ale] Assembly Language?

[Jim Kinney]

You can always add in assembly as a "blob" when linking in using gcc.

see:
http://www.ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/GCC-Inline-Assembly-HOWTO.html
Basically, any compiled code can have assembly added for ultra-fine tuning.

not that I want to do any of that :-)


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I haven't programmed any assembly language since college 27 years ago.
>  That was 6502 assembly, and we had to build and program something similar
> to the controller in a microwave oven.
>
> For some reason, I find myself gravitating to wanting to try assembly
> again.  I don't have any delusions about doing massive projects or becoming
> employed with it.  It's more of an intellectual curiosity thing.
>
> So, I had a few questions.
>
> Have any of you worked with Intel x86 32 bit assembly on Linux?  How about
> 64 bit?
>
> Is anyone familiar with HLA, or High Level Assembly, which uses macros (I
> think) to support constructs like if/then, while, etc?  This is in a book I
> may buy.
>
> What would be necessary to use assembly in Linux (Mint / Ubuntu)?  What
> about HLA?
>
> Can you even truly run assembly on a modern OS?  IE, can you even get
> access to the registers, etc?
>
> What would be a good way to learn it?
>
> None of this is critical, but I thought it would make for interesting
> discussion.  I cannot say how far I'll end up pursuing this, but I'm
> threatening to buy this book, which I've been eyeing for a while.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Art-Assembly-Language-Randall-Hyde/dp/1593272073
>
> The Art of Assembly Language
>
> Any help is always appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
>
>
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