have worrys about compilers

[redwing26]

Hi ,

I have been slowly learning assembly for a while now, I went away for it for a while to get a better understanding of c, anyway now Im back on the assembly, I have the following compilers tasm and masm.

Now eventually I want to learn to use assembly to crack my own programs to better understand security and the low lvl details of computing and the windows api.

I was wandering which is the best assembler out of tasm and masm ,,,,,,from what ive read some people seem to think tasm is a bit old, I however dont yet have enough knowledge to make a concrete desicion on that yet. I would go with masm but some of the tutorials use things like print and stdout with masm and I am wanting to learn assembly at the lowest lvl, especially since I want to be able to understand whats going on in my program exes at the end of the road. Where can I get the best compiler and 32 bit 100% assembly guides?

thanks
redwing

 

[trollacious]

If you want to disassemble your executables, you should use a disassembler. If you want to see what the programs are doing where, you need a profiler. Assembly language is assembled, not compiled. Both tasm and masm are excellent, as are A86, fasm, and nasm.

http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/assembly-resources.html

Lee

 

[denc4]

http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AsmTools/WhichAsm.html

 

[bluetongol]

i am not really a hardcore assembly language programmer
but i would suggest that you use the assembler that suits
you. and you might want to start with 16-bit, besides the
site that you have been visiting/reading -

http://www.joelgompert.com/OS/introduction.htm

uses 16-bit
code programming.

anyway, i am using the old a86 as my assemler.