Re: [aclug-L] Assembly Question?

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 1) You do not compile assembly programs--you assemble them.
> 2) The core assembly language is the same on any Intel platform,
> regardless of the OS.  But there is too much DOS stuff that you do in that
> class to be able to write the programs in Linux.

This is actually incorrect.  The syntax and usage of as or as86 (the
assemblers on Linux) is significantly different from that under DOS.
Not to mention that CS312 uses 16-bit segmented architecture, wheras
Linux uses 32-bit (or 64-bit on some non-Intel platforms) flat
architecture.

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