Blade
17.10.2006, 00:33:41
Assembly is specific to the processor platform (x86 in this case, 386 and above since its 32bit), its basically a kind of human readable direct representation of machine code... more readable than the binary code anyhow. I'm sure CnCVK or PD could explain some of the finer points, but unless you understand the basics of how to actually write some assembly code to accomplish stuff as you would in a higher level language like C, is there really any point them talking about it?
BTW, I believe there have been attempts to make decompilers that generate something like C code from a compiled binary, but they don't contain a lot of the contextual information or the comments that would have been in the original, making it hard to work out what anything does. A lot of information that is useful to the human writing a program, but not to the computer is stripped when a program is compiled.
BTW, I believe there have been attempts to make decompilers that generate something like C code from a compiled binary, but they don't contain a lot of the contextual information or the comments that would have been in the original, making it hard to work out what anything does. A lot of information that is useful to the human writing a program, but not to the computer is stripped when a program is compiled.