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# Assembly & Related Notes
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These notes are focused on assembly language and related tooling (linkers, loaders, etc).
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Speficially, those used on the following machines:
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* Modern personal computers (MS Windows, Linux, or Mac)
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* Video Game Consoles (fourth gen and up)
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# Significant Authorship
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These are in alphabetical order by author.
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## Brian Robert Callahan
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[Demystifying programs that create programs](https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210407.html)
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* [Part 1: A disassembler](https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210407.html)
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* [Part 2: Starting an assembler](https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210408.html)
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* [Part 3: Globals, passes, and error handling](https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210409.html)
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* [Part 4: Parsing](https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210410.html)
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* [Part 5: Processing our first opcode](https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210411.html)
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* [Part 6: Processing more opcodes](https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210412.html)
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* [Part 7: Further opcode processing](https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210413.html)
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* [Part 8: Finishing opcode processing](https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210414.html)
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* [Source](https://github.com/ibara/d80)
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## Brian R. Hall
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[Assembly Programming and Computer Architecture for Software Engineers](https://brianrhall.com/book/)
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<img src="./assets/Assembly Programming and Computer Architecture for Software Engineers (Cover_Ed2).png" alt="Book Cover" width="320">
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## Casey Muratori
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[Performance-Aware Programming Series](https://www.computerenhance.com/p/table-of-contents)
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<img src="./assets/Computer Enhance banner.jpg" alt="Banner" width="320">
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* Part 1: Reading ASM
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* [Instruction Decoding on the 8086](https://www.computerenhance.com/p/instruction-decoding-on-the-8086)
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* [Decoding Multiple Instructions and Suffixes](https://www.computerenhance.com/p/decoding-multiple-instructions-and)
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* [Opcode Patterns in 8086 Arithmetic](https://www.computerenhance.com/p/opcode-patterns-in-8086-arithmetic)
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* [8086 Decoder Code Review](https://www.computerenhance.com/p/8086-decoder-code-review)
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* [Using the Reference Decoder as a Shared Library](https://www.computerenhance.com/p/using-the-reference-decoder-as-a)
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* [Simulating Non-memory MOVs](https://www.computerenhance.com/p/simulating-non-memory-movs)
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* [Simulating ADD, SUB, and CMP](https://www.computerenhance.com/p/simulating-add-jmp-and-cmp)
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* [Simulating Conditional Jumps]()
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* [Simulating Memory]()
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* [Simulating Real Programs]()
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* [Other Common Instructions]()
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* [The Stack]()
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* [From 8086 to x64]()
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* [8086 Simulation Code Review]()
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## David Salomon
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https://www.davidsalomon.name
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[Assemblers and Loaders (1993)](https://www.davidsalomon.name/assem.advertis/AssemAd.html)
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<img src="./assets/ASSEMBLERS%20AND%20LOADERS%20(upscale%20&%20cleanedup).png" alt="Book Cover" width="320">
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[Affine Notes](https://app.affine.pro/workspace/3fc9d28f-0ee6-4e4c-9675-79230706f341/koifv--tIzioAWQsC3OY0?mode=edgeless)
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## Edson Borin
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[An Introduction to Assembly Programming with RISC-V](https://riscv-programming.org/book/riscv-book.html)
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<img src="./assets/An Introduction to Assembly Programming with RISC-V.jpg" alt="Book Cover" width="320">
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## FFmpeg
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[asm-lessons](https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons)
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## Ian Lance Taylor
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[20 part Linker Essay (on LWN)](https://lwn.net/Articles/276782/)
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<img src="./assets/IAN LANCE 20 part (preview).png" alt="Preview" width="320">
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## John R. Levine
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https://www.johnlevine.com/index.phtml
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[Linkers and Loaders (2000)](https://linker.iecc.com)
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<img src="./assets/LINKERS & LOADERS (cover).png" alt="Book Cover" width="320">
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## Jo Van Hoey
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[Beginning x64 Assembly Programming: From Novice to AVX Professional](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-5076-1)
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<img src="./assets/Beginning x64 Assembly Programming cover.webp" alt="Book Cover" width="320">
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## Michael Abrash
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[Zen of Assembly Language](https://www.jagregory.com/abrash-zen-of-asm/)
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<img src="./assets/ZEN OF ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE (cover).jpg" alt="Book Cover" width="320">
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## nicebyte
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[Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly!](https://gpfault.net/posts/asm-tut-0.txt.html)
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* [Part 0 - Setup and First Steps](https://gpfault.net/posts/asm-tut-0.txt.html)
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* [Part 1 - Metaprogramming in Flat Assembler](https://gpfault.net/posts/asm-tut-1.txt.html)
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* [Part 2 - We're Writing a Virtual Machine](https://gpfault.net/posts/asm-tut-2.txt.html)
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* [Part 3 - Arithmetic and Logic](https://gpfault.net/posts/asm-tut-3.txt.html)
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## Ryan Fluery
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[Demystifying Debuggers, Part 2: The Anatomy Of A Running Program](https://www.rfleury.com/p/demystifying-debuggers-part-2-the)
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Goes over OS exectuable format, loaders.
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## Tools
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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.
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[Zydis](https://github.com/zyantific/zydis)
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* [ZASM (Zydis frontend, not to be confused with Z80 assembler...)](https://github.com/zyantific/zasm)
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[Netwide Assembler](https://www.nasm.us)
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[EuroAssembler](https://euroassembler.eu/eadoc/)
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[DynASM](https://github.com/Esvandiary/DynASM)
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[AssemblyLine](https://github.com/0xADE1A1DE/AssemblyLine)
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[AsmJit](https://github.com/asmjit)
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* [AsmTK](https://github.com/asmjit/asmtk)
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[VASM](http://sun.hasenbraten.de/vasm/)
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[FASM](https://flatassembler.net)
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[YASM (Rewrite (on some) of Netwide in C)](https://yasm.tortall.net)
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* [Design](https://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/reference/design/design.pdf)
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* [User Manual](https://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/manual/manual.pdf)
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* [libyasm](https://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/reference/libyasm-doc/html/files.html)
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[TASM](https://github.com/qb40/tasm)
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[HLA](https://plantation-productions.com/Webster/HighLevelAsm/index.html)
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[libasm](https://github.com/tgtakaoka/libasm)
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Assemblers below are just noted to exist but I don't care for.
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[xbyak](https://github.com/herumi/xbyak)
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[Keystone assembler framework](https://github.com/keystone-engine/keystone)
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[MASM](https://github.com/qb40/masm)
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[GAS](https://wiki.osdev.org/GAS)
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[LIEF](https://github.com/lief-project/LIEF)
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## Exectuable Formats
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* [PE Format](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/pe-format?redirectedfrom=MSDN)
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* [ELF](https://wiki.osdev.org/ELF)
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* [Mach-O](https://github.com/aidansteele/osx-abi-macho-file-format-reference/blob/master/Mach-O_File_Format.pdf)
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## Misc
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[SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard](https://pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/15/sbcl-the-ultimate-assembly-code-breadboard/)
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[mschwartz's assembly tutorial](https://github.com/mschwartz/assembly-tutorial)
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[CppCon 2018: Matt Godbolt “The Bits Between the Bits: How We Get to main()”](https://youtu.be/dOfucXtyEsU)
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[Learning Assembly YT Playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHJns8WZXCdvESvdr1BRjo4RHiR1Ylhw9)
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[OSdev Entry](https://wiki.osdev.org/Assembly)
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