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Introduction to Assembly language

Assembly Language is a low-level programming language that translates human-readable code into machine code, facilitating control over computer tasks. It has advantages such as memory efficiency and speed, but also presents challenges like complexity and lack of portability. Learning Assembly Language is crucial for programmers to optimize performance and understand processor and memory functions.

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Introduction to Assembly language

Assembly Language is a low-level programming language that translates human-readable code into machine code, facilitating control over computer tasks. It has advantages such as memory efficiency and speed, but also presents challenges like complexity and lack of portability. Learning Assembly Language is crucial for programmers to optimize performance and understand processor and memory functions.

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Introduction to Assembly

Language
Assembly Language is a low-level programming language. It helps in

understanding the programming language to machine code. In

computer, there is assembler that helps in converting the assembly

code into machine code executable. Assembly language is designed

to understand the instruction and provide to machine language for

further processing. It mainly depends on the architecture of the

system whether it is the operating system or computer architecture.

Assembly Language mainly consists of mnemonic processor

instructions or data, and other statements or instructions. It is

produced with the help of compiling the high-level language source

code like C, C++. Assembly Language helps in fine-tuning the

program.

Advantages:
1. It allows complex jobs to run in a simpler way.

2. It is memory efficient, as it requires less memory.

3. It is faster in speed, as its execution time is less.


4. It is mainly hardware oriented.

5. It requires less instruction to get the result.

6. It is used for critical jobs.

7. It is not required to keep track of memory locations.

8. It is a low-level embedded system.

Disadvantages:
1. It takes a lot of time and effort to write the code for the same.

2. It is very complex and difficult to understand.

3. The syntax is difficult to remember.

4. It has a lack of portability of program between different

computer architectures.

5. It needs more size or memory of the computer to run the long

programs written in Assembly Language.

Why is Assembly Language Useful?


Assembly language helps programmers to write the human-readable

code that is almost similar to machine language. Machine language

is difficult to understand and read as it is just a series of numbers.


Assembly language helps in providing full control of what tasks a

computer is performing.

Example:

Find the below steps to print “Hello world” in Windows

1. Open the notepad.

2. Write below code

global _main

extern _printf

section .text

_main:

push message

call _printf

add esp, 4

ret

message:

db 'Hello, World!', 10, 0

3. Save the file with any name example XYZ.asm, the extension

should be “.asm”.
4. The above file needs to compile with the help of assembler

that is NASM (Netwide Assembler).

5. Run the command nasm –f win32 XYZ.asm

6. After this, Nasm creates one object file that contains machine

code but not the executable code that is XYZ.obj

7. To create the executable file for windows Minimal GNU is used

that provides the GCC compiler.

8. Run the command gcc –o XYZ.exe XYZ.obj

9. Execute the executable file now “XYZ”

10. It will show the output as “Hello, world”.

Why you should learn Assembly


Language?
The learning of assembly language is still important for

programmers. It helps in taking complete control over the system

and its resources. By learning assembly language, the programmer

is able to write the code to access registers and able to retrieve the
memory address of pointers and values. It mainly helps in speed

optimization that increase efficiency and performance.

Assembly language learning helps in understanding the processor

and memory functions. If the programmer is writing any program

that needs to be a compiler that means the programmer should

have a complete understanding of the processor. Assembly

language helps in understanding the work of processor and

memory. It is cryptic and symbolic language.

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