I am working my way through Professional Assembly Language by Richard Blum. Why? I like lower level programming and I find assembly language interesting.
My setup is a Mint Linux x64 box. Professional Assembly Language, and many of the other books on assembly language, tend to use i386 32-bit assembly. In fact there are more books on 32-bit assembly language on the market than there are on 64-bit assembly language. It is nice to learn by going through book examples, but I don’t want to have to change them too much. I don’t mind changing command line switches, but I don’t want to have to convert all code to 64-bit assembly while learning.
Trying to compile and link 32-bit assembly on an 64-bit machine, you can run into some issues. This post goes over how to get setup so you can assemble and link both 32-bit and 64-bit assembly on an x64 Linux machine.
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