Originally Posted by Bubba
choose a language you've never learned. perl, fortran, kylix, whatever...don't look anything up...now write a short program in it. can't do it can ya? now open a source file of that langauge and tell me you don't have any idea what it's doing.
i have fasm, fasmw, masm, lzasm, and nasm on my computer.
some tutorial examples compile. others don't. the ones that do typically don't compile with any other assembler i have.
one assembler will choke on something like
and another runs just fine.Code:.data MySeg
all the tutorials i read are x86. i didn't ask what instruction set it was, what if there were different syntax's and, if so, what they are called.