Professional Assembly Language
Chapter One
What Is
Assembly Language?
One of the first hurdles to learning assembly language programming is understanding just what
assembly language is. Unlike other programming languages, there is no one standard format that
all assemblers use. Different assemblers use different syntax for writing program statements.
Many beginning assembly language programmers get caught up in trying to figure out the myriad
of different possibilities in assembly language programming.
The first step in learning assembly language programming is defining just what type of assembly
language programming you want to (or need to) use in your environment. Once you define your
flavor of assembly language, it is easy to get started learning and using assembly language in both
standalone and high-level language programs.
This chapter begins the journey by showing where assembly language comes from, and defining
why assembly language programming is used. To understand assembly language programming,
you must first understand the basics of its underlying purpose-programming in processo ... read full excerpt from Professional Assembly Language ebook
