What is the best IDE for Assembly language?

[willz06jw]

Howdy,

My goal is to learn assembly for the Amd-64 before the end of summer. Do you guys know a good IDE for Linux?

Will

[ankursethi]

Any text editor ought to work. I haven't really heard of people refactoring assembly code or creating large projects in it that need to be managed using an IDE. An IDE will be overkill for an asm project.

If you still want to go ahead, why don't you scour the web for an asm plugin for Eclipse? I'm sure someone out there must have had time to kill ...

[boz]

Honestly, I don't have oodles of experience in assembly but I was a teaching assistant for our assembly language class in the Electronics Engineering program in college. I found that the best way to manage large assembly projects was to build your own libraries and document them well. I only knew how to make static libraries in assembly, but it may be possible to make dynamic libraries as well. It probably won't matter, though. I actually made a functional text editor using MASM on the Windows platform (don't ask me why I did it on Windows...ugh - never again) and I need those libraries. Otherwise, the code wouldn't have been manageable. within one document.

I've never heard of a good IDE on the Linux platform and it probably isn't necessary. Just write libraries and document. Of course, good software engineering (i.e. PLANNING) is always a plus. Plan, write, document, and if necessary, refine. I made libraries containing even the most simple stuff, like making a carriage return and line feed in DOS. (Again, DOS...ugh. Don't program in DOS. It was required for us - you don't have an excuse. Stick with Linux.)

[loell]

if you would just like, syntax highlights on assembly, perhaps try

scite

editor

[the_unforgiven]

Almost all programming specific text editors (like vim, emacs) have syntax highlighting support for ASM.
Also, if you are programming seriously in ASM, most of the build structure would be custom made, so any IDE will not be of great help. You'd need to write the Makefiles yourself.

HTH

[hockey97]

What is ASM good for?? becuse I got a book on it, and never really used it , I hear like it's too old,

the book is about computer circuitry, and it talks about using ASM to program your boards ect.

but I hear on the fourms that ASM is old and C++ is more common to use, even for circuitry of computers,

meaning making an OS.

Is this true?? I wanted to learn ASM but after hearing that stuff I then stoped learning it thinking it's a waste of time.

Could C++ do the same Work as ASM??

I know c++ and want to attempt on making an OS thiis summer since I have alot of time.

Thanks for your time.

[Modred]

For more general tasks, yes you would want to use a higher level language like C++. Most ASM instructions have a 1-to-1 correspondence to machine instructions executed by the processor. So if you need to optimize a particular piece of code, writing it in ASM and linking it to your C++ program could help a great deal. Unless I'm mistaken, game developers still make use of ASM quite a bit when interfacing with graphics hardware, since every little bit of speed can make a difference in processor intensive stuff like games.

C++ can do the same things and more (at least out of the box) than ASM in userland, and is much quicker and simpler from a programmer's point of view. Now if you're writing a complete OS, you'll have to do some ASM at some point. When the computer boots, I believe at least some of your bootloader will need to be written in ASM so that you can get the computer far enough along to load the necessary libraries to run a C or C++ program.

[hasanbacioglu]

What is ASM good for?? becuse I got a book on it, and never really used it , I hear like it's too old,

the book is about computer circuitry, and it talks about using ASM to program your boards ect.

but I hear on the fourms that ASM is old and C++ is more common to use, even for circuitry of computers,

meaning making an OS.

Is this true?? I wanted to learn ASM but after hearing that stuff I then stoped learning it thinking it's a waste of time.

Could C++ do the same Work as ASM??

I know c++ and want to attempt on making an OS thiis summer since I have alot of time.

Thanks for your time.

After reading your post and laughing a lot in front of my Liquid Crystal Display, (which is very awkward kind of interaction between an electronics engineer and substance), I just wanna say that you'll need more than "a summer, and a lot of time" for making or writing (or whatever you call it) your own operating system. Why don't you simply try writing a driver for your own mouse or better try to print mouse's coordinates on your console just using assembly, c or c++ ? It should be much more easier than writing an non-operational operating system and also you may make better use of your "a lot of time, and the heat of summer", and dedicate all your skills to much more achievable goal.
If you ever make any progress, just let me know so that your next assignment would be more hardware oriented. More explicitely, related with FPGA's.
Anyway good, luck have fun

[11jmb]

After reading your post and laughing a lot in front of my Liquid Crystal Display, (which is very awkward kind of interaction between an electronics engineer and substance), I just wanna say that you'll need more than "a summer, and a lot of time" for making or writing (or whatever you call it) your own operating system. Why don't you simply try writing a driver for your own mouse or better try to print mouse's coordinates on your console just using assembly, c or c++ ? It should be much more easier than writing an non-operational operating system and also you may make better use of your "a lot of time, and the heat of summer", and dedicate all your skills to much more achievable goal.
If you ever make any progress, just let me know so that your next assignment would be more hardware oriented. More explicitely, related with FPGA's.
Anyway good, luck have fun

another great assembly assignment: write a simple function in c and assembly (sorting a long array, for example) compile the c code into 4 object files, compiled with -O0, -O1, -O2, -O3

write an executable that links against the 5 objects and tests the runtime for each

that may help you to understand why assembly is still very useful

another fun exercise: look at the output of an assembler compared to a hand-coded asm file. you may be surprised how sloppy even a good assembler can be

[trent.josephsen]

Ugh. Check post dates, guys. OP's long summer was four years ago.