Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- programming:assembly:assembly_programming [2021/03/21 08:28]
nanodano [x86 on Linux]
+++ programming:assembly:assembly_programming [2021/03/22 02:22] (current)
nanodano ↷ Page name changed from programming:assembly:home to programming:assembly:assembly_programming
@@ Line 3: / Line 3: @@
 ====== Assembly Programming ======
+Assembly is about as close as you can get to machine code.
 There are many Assembly compilers out there. ''nasm'' is one compiler that is available across platforms and can be used to program x86 processors.
@@ Line 8: / Line 9: @@
 Use interrupt ''0x80'' to make Linux system calls like reading and writing to file descriptors and sockets.
-For a list of system calls in Linux, refer to [[https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscalls.2.html]]
+For a list of system calls in Linux, run ''man syscalls'' or refer to an online man page like [[https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscalls.2.html]]. To get the actual number, try to find the ''unistd.h'' file. For example, in Debian, ''/usr/include/asm-generic/unistd.h'' has all of the statements that define the syscall numbers (''NR''). Or, refer to the source code of Linux (pick the right branch) [[https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v4.17/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl]] and [[https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v4.17/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl]].
 Here is an example of compiling with ''nasm'':

DevDungeon Wiki