Assembly programming

This repository contains blog posts that introduce the assembly programming language. For this moment, all the content and examples cover only the x86_64 processors and the GNU Linux operating system. In the future, I plan to post learning materials for the ARM64 architecture.

Whether you are an experienced programmer or not, these posts are intended for everyone to learn the assembly programming language. The posts cover the following topics:

• Basic description of the x86_64 processor architecture
• How to write, build, and run a simple program written in the assembly programming language
• The main parts of which a program for Linux consists
• Basics of memory allocation, what is stack and heap
• What is a system call and how does your program interact with an operating system
• How floating point numbers are represented in a computer memory
• How to call assembly code from a C program
• And many more...

Have fun!

Here are links to each post:

• Part 1. Introduction
• Part 2. The x86_64 concepts
• Part 3. Journey through the stack
• Part 4. Data manipulation
• Part 5. Macros
• Part 6. Floating-point arithmetic
• Part 7. Assembly interaction with high-level programming languages

[!NOTE] All the posts are also available as a single PDF book that you can download here.

The code examples that accompany the chapters live in the examples directory.

Requirements

To run code examples, you need the following tools:

• 64-bit distribution of Linux
• make
• NASM
• binutils

Translations

Thanks to the volunteers, the posts about assembly programming are translated into different languages.

[!NOTE] The translations may diverge from the original content.

Chinese translation

• 译文: Say hello to x64 Assembly [part 1]
• 译文: Say hello to x64 Assembly [part 2]
• 译文: Say hello to x64 Assembly [part 3]
• 译文: Say hello to x64 Assembly [part 4]
• 译文: Say hello to x64 Assembly [part 5]
• 译文: Say hello to x64 Assembly [part 6]
• 译文: Say hello to x64 Assembly [part 7]
• 译文: Say hello to x64 Assembly [part 8]

Turkish translation

• X86_64 Assembly'a merhaba deyin bölüm 1
• X86_64 Assembly'a merhaba deyin bölüm 2
• X86_64 Assembly'a merhaba deyin bölüm 3
• X86_64 Assembly'a merhaba deyin bölüm 4
• X86_64 Assembly'a merhaba deyin bölüm 5
• X86_64 Assembly'a merhaba deyin bölüm 6
• X86_64 Assembly'a merhaba deyin bölüm 7
• X86_64 Assembly'a merhaba deyin bölüm 8

Korean translation

• X86_64 어셈블리와 친해지기 [파트 1]
• X86_64 어셈블리와 친해지기 [파트 2]
• X86_64 어셈블리와 친해지기 [파트 3]
• X86_64 어셈블리와 친해지기 [파트 4]
• X86_64 어셈블리와 친해지기 [파트 5]
• X86_64 어셈블리와 친해지기 [파트 6]
• X86_64 어셈블리와 친해지기 [파트 7]
• X86_64 어셈블리와 친해지기 [파트 8]

Russian translation

• GitHub repository

Contribution

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License

Each Markdown file in the repository is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Author

The technical content is written by @0xAX.

Additional big thanks to @klaudiagrz for text improvements.