Assembly

🖥️ Assembly Language

Assembly language is a low-level programming language designed for a specific type of processor. It is a human-readable representation of the machine code executed by a CPU.

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📖 Key Topics

1. CPU Architectures: x86_64 (CISC) vs ARM (RISC) architectures.
2. Registers: Accumulator (EAX/RAX), base (EBX/RBX), counter (ECX/RCX), data registers, instruction pointer (EIP/RIP), stack pointer (ESP/RSP).
3. Instructions:
   • MOV: Transfer data.
   • ADD, SUB, MUL, DIV: Arithmetic.
   • CMP, JMP, JE, JNE: Conditionals and branching.
   • PUSH, POP: Stack manipulation.
4. Assemblers: NASM (Netwide Assembler), GAS (GNU Assembler).