ASM

Survey
I chose NASM b'cos that was the last assembler that I looked at for my unix porting that I will be commencing soon. It may not be a great choice but that was the last assembler that I checking on for writing OS stuff. FASM? Heard before but not sure on it's strengths. Can you provide some tips on why I should look... 25 Mar 2006 07:40

urgent help needed
Hey Guys, I have to make an assembly program that after the user enters either 'c' or 'f' will then be prompted for a number to be converted into celcius or fahrenheit.. It is my first time making a program of this sort and i have come up with the following code which works, but is very basic. it simply outputs a ... 15 Mar 2006 09:38

"We Never Use Assembly Language"
Please ignore the mathematically model, not the solution for AND in all case senarios. john On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:11:25 +0800, john chung <johnzulu[at]yahoo.com> wrote: Hmmm....... Tim needs a mind shift there.... Assembly no more? Performance only exclusive on HLL? It seems that Tim has forgotten the ... 21 Mar 2006 16:50

Programming GPU with ASM
Anyone here ever did any serious GPU programming using ASM ? There's a ton of info on GPU programming but almost all involved cg. I just wonder if there's any API and or SDK out there that can allow asm programmers to tap on the raw power of those advance GPU ? Thanks in advance ! ... 14 Mar 2006 13:24

x86-64 assembly problems
Hi I am starting to practice x86-64 assembly on my AMD64 box. I use the yasm assembler and link with the gcc. But i see there is a difference in the way simple functions like printf() work with assembly in 64bit mode. In 32bit mode, if we have to do "printf("Hello World!\n"); ", then all we do is push the string "... 20 Mar 2006 18:25

Input/Output
Hey guys, i am need of desperate help.. i have been given the task of using notepad to write a program in assembley language that converts a number into either centigrade or fahrenheit.. i have most of the code working, well the calculations anyway. However i do not know how to get input from a user and to then use... 15 Mar 2006 09:38

"We Never Use Assembly Language"
Check out http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~dpw/popl/06/Tim-POPL.ppt This is a talk Tim Sweeny gave on programming languages at POPL (a very high-end programming languages conference) on language design goals that game programmers are interested it. Despite the obvious knock against using assembly language, it discus... 14 Mar 2006 11:50

Assembler/Compiler testing
Hi Guys, This one is really for assembler/compiler authors, as well as some of the other guys that are more evolved in testing. It's not really related to assembly, but more about the actual assemblers themselves. How do you guys do testing on your assemblers and/or libraries and applications? Do you use test ... 26 Mar 2006 19:26

watcom assembly language
Does someone know where to get a good handbook for that open watcom assembler "wasm.exe" like in ".pdf" format or so ? I've neither found anything in www, nor under their official openwatcom's internet site. thank you for any efforts, Florian. ... 28 Feb 2006 15:34

Ideal computer language from scratch?
For the last few days, I've been pondering the simularities between different languages and some of the things I like and dislike about these languages. Basically, my thoughts circle around this question: How would you go about designing an Ideal computer language from scratch? Since this is an assembly NG, I... 11 Mar 2006 14:45