First, architecture basics are detailed with information on the register sets, data types, and memory and instruction formats. Next, instruction set extensions are detailed, which include Intel® ...

Once we’ve built a computer, the next step is to develop an assembly language and then an assembler that can assemble our programs. In my previous column, we introduced the concept of the big-endian ...

This repository contains a VERY BASIC x86-64 assembler, which is capable of reading assembly-language input, and generating a staticly linked ELF binary output. It is more a proof-of-concept than a ...

This textbook provides a gentle introduction to assembly language programming. What makes this introduction "gentle" is that it assumes the reader is already comfortable with C or C++ coding. We use ...