Should I learn assembly at some point?
Machine code is directly executable by a CPU, without any other preprocessing. In the case of physical CPUs, it is almost never human-readable.
Assembly is a human-readable representation of machine language. I say "representation" because there's a 1-to-1 correspondence between an Assembly program and its assembled version. Contrast to C/++, where the same program can be compiled to many different programs, depending on compiler options and implementation details.
There is no single Assembly language; every CPU architecture has its own Assembly language. x86 Assembly is the particular Assembly language used by the x86 architecture. There's two main flavors: Intel syntax and AT&T syntax. In Intel syntax
assigns 0 to register eax. The equivalent in AT&T syntax is
Many assemblers ever within the same architecture, may tweak the finer points of the syntax, such as the various addressing methods, or how to declare data.
Assembly is a human-readable representation of machine language. I say "representation" because there's a 1-to-1 correspondence between an Assembly program and its assembled version. Contrast to C/++, where the same program can be compiled to many different programs, depending on compiler options and implementation details.
There is no single Assembly language; every CPU architecture has its own Assembly language. x86 Assembly is the particular Assembly language used by the x86 architecture. There's two main flavors: Intel syntax and AT&T syntax. In Intel syntax
mov eax, 0assigns 0 to register eax. The equivalent in AT&T syntax is
mov 0, eaxMany assemblers ever within the same architecture, may tweak the finer points of the syntax, such as the various addressing methods, or how to declare data.
Can you learn it? Yes. Should you learn it? Up to you. Is it beneficial to learn? Depends.
It really depends on you and honestly I know some of it, but what I do know is fun. Probably worth a dabble here and there.
It really depends on you and honestly I know some of it, but what I do know is fun. Probably worth a dabble here and there.
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