Assembly

Assembly (ASM) is the human-readable representation of the machine instructions the CPU executes directly. It's specific to each architecture (x86, ARM). Used where absolute control and extreme performance are critical.

• Creado por Kathleen Booth (concepto)
• Año 1947
• Paradigma: Low-level · assembled
• Extensiones: .asm, .s, .a51, .inc

Para qué se usa

• Embedded systems
• Critical optimization
• Reverse engineering

A favor

• Total hardware control
• Absolute max performance
• No abstractions

En contra

• Extremely tedious
• Not portable
• Very error-prone

Ecosistema

• NASM
• MASM
• GAS
• GDB
• objdump
• ld

Ejemplo

section .data
  msg db "¡Hola, mundo!",0
section .text
  global _start