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Assembly language is defined by the assembler, the software that parses the assembly language. The only "standard" is the machine code, that has to match the processor, but if you take 100 programmers...
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UNIX was for a long time developed on the PDP-11, a 16 bit computer from DEC, which had a fairly simple instruction set. Nearly every instruction has two operands, each of which can have one of the...
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When using assembly instructions on x86 or amd64, programmer can use "Intel" (i.e. nasm compiler) or "AT&T" (i.e. gas compiler) assembly syntax. "Intel" syntax is more popular on Windows, but...
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