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# assembly-intro
Intro to x86 Assembly Language
MASM is short for Microsoft Macro Assembler
• Assembly instructions are readable forms of machine instructions
– They use mnemonics to specify operations in a human-oriented
MOV (move) SUB (subtract) JMP (jump)
• Instructions have two aspects : operation and operands
– Operation (Opcode): how to use state variable values
– operands: which state variables to us
• Operands can be specified in a variety of ways that are called
addressing modes
– Simple modes: register, immediate, direct
– More powerful: indirect