learning Assembly(1)

 

Endianness:

 

Again, it’s not about operating systems. The entire x86 hardware architecture, from the lowly 8086 up to the latest Core 2 Quad, is little endian.

 

If (as mostly likely) you’re running Linux on an ordinary x86 CPU, you’ll be little endian.

 

 

 

**From a height, all programming is a matter of processing files.

 

Program translators are translators that generate machine instructions that
the CPU can understand.  (Is is a compiler?)

 

An assembler is a special type of compiler. However, an assembler is a translator designed specifically to translate what
we call assembly language into object code.