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Compile/run assembler in Linux?

I’m fairly new to Linux (Ubuntu 10.04) and a total novice to assembler. I was following some tutorials and I couldn’t find anything specific to Linux. So, my question is, what is a good package to compile/run assembler and what are the command line commands to compile/run for that package?

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Answer

The GNU assembler (gas) and NASM are both good choices. However, they have some differences, the big one being the order you put operations and their operands.

gas uses AT&T syntax (guide: https://stackoverflow.com/tags/att/info):

mnemonic    source, destination

nasm uses Intel style (guide: https://stackoverflow.com/tags/intel-syntax/info):

mnemonic    destination, source

Either one will probably do what you need. GAS also has an Intel-syntax mode, which is a lot like MASM, not NASM.


Try out this tutorial: http://asm.sourceforge.net/intro/Assembly-Intro.html

See also more links to guides and docs in Stack Overflow’s x86 tag wiki

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