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x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu (Jorgensen)

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The purpose of this text is to provide a reference for University level assembly language and systems programming courses. Specifically, this text addresses the x86-64 instruction set for the popular x86-64 class of processors using the Ubuntu 64-bit Operating System (OS). While the provided code and various examples should work under any Linux-based 64-bit OS, they have only been tested under Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (64-bit). The x86-64 is a Complex Instruction Set Computing (CISC) CPU design. This refers to the internal processor design philosophy. CISC processors typically include a wide variety of instructions (sometimes overlapping), varying instructions sizes, and a wide range of addressing modes. The term was retroactively coined in contrast to Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC).

Thumbnail: Computer Chip (Unsplash License; Brian Kostiuk via Unsplash).


This page titled x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu (Jorgensen) is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Ed Jorgensen.

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