BleepingComputer.com: Basic Noob assembly Question

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; This program runs in 32-bit protected mode.
;  build: nasm -f elf -F stabs name.asm
;  link:  ld -o name name.o
;
; In 64-bit protected mode you can use 64-bit registers (e.g. rax instead of eax, rbx instead of ebx, etc..)
; Also change "-f elf " for "-f elf64" in build command.
;
section .data                           ; section for initialized data
str:     db 'Hello world!', 0Ah         ; message string with new-line char at the end (10 decimal)
str_len: equ $ - str                    ; calcs length of string (bytes) by subtracting this' address ($ symbol) from the str's start address
 
section .text                           ; this is the code section
global _start                           ; _start is the entry point and needs global scope to be 'seen' by the linker -equivalent to main() in C/C++
_start:                                 ; procedure start
        mov    eax, 4                   ; specify the sys_write function code (from OS vector table)
        mov    ebx, 1                   ; specify file descriptor stdout -in linux, everything's treated as a file, even hardware devices
        mov    ecx, str                 ; move start _address_ of string message to ecx register
        mov    edx, str_len             ; move length of message (in bytes)
        int    80h                      ; tell kernel to perform the system call we just set up - in linux services are requested through the kernel
        mov    eax, 1                   ; specify sys_exit function code (from OS vector table)
        mov    ebx, 0                   ; specify return code for OS (0 = everything's fine)
        int    80h                      ; tell kernel to perform system call

IDK i just wanted to start in Assembly world
anyway Got a video tut about 32bit assembly programming and the Teacher used a two Hello World samples
i couldn't understand can someone Explain those extremely basic Programs
(i didn't understand the annotation )

also if some one Can help me just Look for free Resources for Assembly Language on the internet that will be helpful
i already tried looking i just keep Hitting the Wall

any way just wanted to tell that i want to learn Assembly to start in RE malware World
also if you can give me some tips about that

From what line on do you fail to understand what your program does?

This program runs in 32-bit protected mode.

just kidding


the question is i don't understand how all this assembly stuff works maybe cuz i'm c# programmer Aka noob

anyway

why do we have two section section for text and another for data

okay my understanding is why we Load the registers with 4 and 1

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i find this sample is very confusing and hard can you show me a simpler one just for 32 bit

All programs have an instruction section and a data section. You just don't see it while the program is being executed..

There are about a bazillion assembly tutorials online, and in reality, the example you found is as basic as it gets. You need to read a lot before you are going to understand what is happening. Are you able to get the program working?

Maybe this will help:
http://www.drpaulcarter.com/pcasm/pcasm-book-pdf.zip

When you get the program running, try running it with a debugger and single step through it, this will make things cleared.

thanks for the Help Guys i will try Reading more about the architecture of the computer and Using a Debugger it's an excellent idea thanks for the help

It might help to download the intel instruction set.

I don't know if you're set on learning Intel's assembly language...a better one to learn on may be MIPS. Just a thought

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Just another thought. It might be helpful to elaborate on why MIPS may be 'better' (whatever that means).

Well MIPS has a much stricter convention than Intel...the developers did their very best to make everything uniform and simple. And (IMO) it's easier to understand. Just comparing MIPS code snippets to Intel code snippets, MIPS is easier to read. That's just my opinion (I'm currently taking a class in MIPS programming)