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>NASM</TITLE
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>Linux Assembly HOWTO</TH
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>Chapter 3. Assemblers</TD
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>3.3. NASM</H1
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> The Netwide Assembler project provides cool i386 assembler, written in C, that
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should be modular enough to eventually support all known syntaxes and object
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formats.
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>3.3.1. Where to find NASM</H2
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> http://www.nasm.us,
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/nasm/
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> Binary release on your usual metalab mirror in
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<TT
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>devel/lang/asm/</TT
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> directory. Should also be available as
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>.rpm</TT
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> or <TT
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> in your usual Linux
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distribution.
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>3.3.2. What it does</H2
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> The syntax is Intel-style. Comprehensive macroprocessing support is integrated.
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> Supported object file formats are <TT
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> (DOS), <TT
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>win32</TT
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> (their own format).
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> NASM can be used as a backend for the free LCC compiler (support files
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included).
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> Unless you're using BCC as a 16-bit compiler (which is out of scope of this
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32-bit HOWTO), you should definitely use NASM instead of say AS86 or MASM,
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because it runs on all platforms.
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> NASM comes with a disassembler, NDISASM.
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> Its hand-written parser makes it much faster than GAS, though of course, it
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doesn't support three bazillion different architectures. If you like
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Intel-style syntax, as opposed to GAS syntax, then it should be the assembler
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of choice...
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</P
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><P
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> Note: There are few programs which may help you
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to convert source code between AT&T and Intel assembler syntaxes; some of
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the are capable of performing conversion in both directions.
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