Compile/run assembler in Linux?

Question

I\'m fairly new to Linux (Ubuntu 10.04) and a total novice to assembler. I was following some tutorials and I couldn\'t find anything specific to Linux. So, my question is,

Answer 1

The GNU assembler (gas) and NASM are both good choices. However, they have some differences, the big one being the order you put operations and their operands.

gas uses AT&T syntax (guide: https://stackoverflow.com/tags/att/info):

mnemonic    source, destination

nasm uses Intel style (guide: https://stackoverflow.com/tags/intel-syntax/info):

mnemonic    destination, source

Either one will probably do what you need. GAS also has an Intel-syntax mode, which is a lot like MASM, not NASM.

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Try out this tutorial: http://asm.sourceforge.net/intro/Assembly-Intro.html

See also more links to guides and docs in Stack Overflow's x86 tag wiki

Answer 2

3 syntax (nasm, tasm, gas ) in 1 assembler, yasm.

http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/