assembly

Assembly Language

• CISC vs RISK
  • CISC
    • Complex Instruction Set
    • Verbose, yet compact
  • RISC
    • Reduced Instruction Set
    • Concise, yet expensive
• Architectures
  • x86
  • ARM
• gcc -S to output assembly code instead of executable binary
• Display symbols with nm command (“names”)

Elements

• Directives
• Labels
• Instructions