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Contents
Introduction
- assembler - An assembler is a program that compiles human-readable operations into instructions interpreted by the processor
- linker - A linker is a program that combines the compiled assembly objects into a binary. 'ld' is the standard linker on Linux platforms.
Compilers such as GCC/CC do both operations dynamically.
- Assemble-time: Assembly & operands -> Opcode Sequence
- Link-time: Flat binary of opcode sequence -> executable file format for OS
- Runtime: Opcode Sequence -> hardware gates (may interact with ram etc)
Binary
- counting
- endianness
- nybble - An uncommon unit of memory equivalent to 4 bits.
- byte - A byte is a unit of memory equivalent to 8 bits.
- word
- dword
- qword
Number handling
- signed - Signed values are required to represent negative numbers. Most languages by default assume values are signed. The range of numbers it can assign extends from -1 downwards, depending on the data type.
- unsigned - Despite not being able to assign negative numbers, unsigned values are particularly advantageous for positive ranges. The memory that would have been assigned to the negative range is instead added to the positive range (twice as many positive numbers).
- 2's compliment
Data storage
- register - A location where memory can be stored temporarily
- pointer - An address that points to another location in memory
- sub-register
- cpu flag registers
- architecture-specific registers
Memory Addressing
- stack pointer
- instruction pointer
- base pointer
- addressing mode
- index
Instructions
Syntaxes
- Intel (dest, src)
- ATT (src, dest)
Data manipulation basic primitives
- mov
- push
- pop
Basic arithmetic
- add
- sub
- div
- mul
Bitwise mathematics operators
- and
- not
- or
- xor
Shifts and rotations
- shl
- shr
- rol
- ror
Control flow operators
- cmp
- jmp
- call
- ret
Taking it further
- kernel interrupt
- architecture - i386, i686, x86_64
- operating system
