diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md index b37e74b..0d53e45 100644 --- a/Readme.md +++ b/Readme.md @@ -1,10 +1,58 @@ -# Assembly Notes +# Assembly & Related Notes -# David Salomon +These notes are focused on assembly language and related tooling (linkers, loaders, etc). + +Speficially, those used on the following machines: + +* Modern personal computers (MS Windows, Linux, or Mac) +* Video Game Consoles (fourth gen and up) + +## David Salomon https://www.davidsalomon.name - [Assemblers and Loaders (1993)](https://www.davidsalomon.name/assem.advertis/AssemAd.html) - +Book Cover + +## John R. Levine + +https://www.johnlevine.com/index.phtml + +[Linkers and Loaders (2000)](https://linker.iecc.com) + +## Ian Lance Taylor + +[20 part Linker Essay (on LWN)](https://lwn.net/Articles/276782/) + +## Tools + +Order by interest. My preference was on simple tools written in a C-like, data-oriented, or procedural way. I don't want to deal with low level tooling marred by dense language abstractions. + +[Zydis](https://github.com/zyantific/zydis) + +* [ZASM (Zydis frontend, not to be confused with Z80 assembler...)](https://github.com/zyantific/zasm) + +[YASM (Rewrite of (some) of Netwide in C)](https://yasm.tortall.net) + +[AsmJit](https://github.com/asmjit) + +[FASM](https://flatassembler.net) + +[VASM](http://sun.hasenbraten.de/vasm/) + +[HLA](https://plantation-productions.com/Webster/HighLevelAsm/index.html) + +Everything below is just noted to exist but I don't care for. + +[Netwide Assembler](https://www.nasm.us) + +[MASM](https://github.com/qb40/masm) + +[GAS](https://wiki.osdev.org/GAS) + +## Exectuable Formats + +* [PE Format](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/pe-format?redirectedfrom=MSDN) +* [ELF](https://wiki.osdev.org/ELF) +* [Mach-O](https://github.com/aidansteele/osx-abi-macho-file-format-reference/blob/master/Mach-O_File_Format.pdf)