This manual documents NASM, the Netwide Assembler: an assembler targetting the Intel x86 series of processors, with portable source.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Section 1.1: What Is NASM?
Section 1.1.1: Why Yet Another Assembler?
Section 1.1.2: Licence Conditions
Section 1.2: Contact Information
Section 1.3: Installation
Section 1.3.1: Installing NASM under MS-DOS or Windows
Section 1.3.2: Installing NASM under Unix
Chapter 2: Running NASM
Section 2.1: NASM Command-Line Syntax
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Section 2.2: Quick Start for MASM Users
Section 2.2.1: NASM Is Case-Sensitive
Section 2.2.2: NASM Requires Square Brackets For Memory References
Section 2.2.3: NASM Doesn't Store Variable Types
Section 2.2.4: NASM Doesn't
Section 2.2.5: NASM Doesn't Support Memory Models
Section 2.2.6: Floating-Point Differences
Section 2.2.7: Other Differences
Chapter 3: The NASM Language
Section 3.1: Layout of a NASM Source Line
Section 3.2: Pseudo-Instructions
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Section 3.3: Effective Addresses
Section 3.4: Constants
Section 3.4.1: Numeric Constants
Section 3.4.2: Character Constants
Section 3.4.3: String Constants
Section 3.4.4: Floating-Point Constants
Section 3.5: Expressions
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Section 3.8: Critical Expressions
Section 3.9: Local Labels
Chapter 4: The NASM Preprocessor
Section 4.1: Single-Line Macros
Section 4.1.1: The Normal Way:
Section 4.1.2: Enhancing %define:
Section 4.1.3: Concatenating Single Line Macro Tokens:
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Section 4.3: Multi-Line Macros:
Section 4.3.1: Overloading Multi-Line Macros
Section 4.3.2: Macro-Local Labels
Section 4.3.3: Greedy Macro Parameters
Section 4.3.4: Default Macro Parameters
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Section 4.3.7: Concatenating Macro Parameters
Section 4.3.8: Condition Codes as Macro Parameters
Section 4.3.9: Disabling Listing Expansion
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Section 4.6: Including Other Files
Section 4.7: The Context Stack
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Chapter 5: Assembler Directives
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Chapter 6: Output Formats
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Chapter 7: Writing 16-bit Code (DOS, Windows 3/3.1)
Section 7.1: Producing
Section 7.1.1: Using the
Section 7.1.2: Using the
Section 7.2: Producing
Section 7.2.1: Using the
Section 7.2.2: Using the
Section 7.3: Producing
Section 7.4: Interfacing to 16-bit C Programs
Section 7.4.1: External Symbol Names
Section 7.4.2: Memory Models
Section 7.4.3: Function Definitions and Function Calls
Section 7.4.4: Accessing Data Items
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Section 7.5: Interfacing to Borland Pascal Programs
Section 7.5.1: The Pascal Calling Convention
Section 7.5.2: Borland Pascal Segment Name Restrictions
Section 7.5.3: Using
Chapter 8: Writing 32-bit Code (Unix, Win32, DJGPP)
Section 8.1: Interfacing to 32-bit C Programs
Section 8.1.1: External Symbol Names
Section 8.1.2: Function Definitions and Function Calls
Section 8.1.3: Accessing Data Items
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Section 8.2: Writing NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD and Linux/ELF Shared Libraries
Section 8.2.1: Obtaining the Address of the GOT
Section 8.2.2: Finding Your Local Data Items
Section 8.2.3: Finding External and Common Data Items
Section 8.2.4: Exporting Symbols to the Library User
Section 8.2.5: Calling Procedures Outside the Library
Section 8.2.6: Generating the Library File
Chapter 9: Mixing 16 and 32 Bit Code
Section 9.1: Mixed-Size Jumps
Section 9.2: Addressing Between Different-Size Segments
Section 9.3: Other Mixed-Size Instructions
Chapter 10: Troubleshooting
Section 10.1: Common Problems
Section 10.1.1: NASM Generates Inefficient Code
Section 10.1.2: My Jumps are Out of Range
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Section 10.2: Bugs
Appendix A: Ndisasm
Section A.1: Introduction
Section A.2: Getting Started: Installation
Section A.3: Running NDISASM
Section A.3.1: COM Files: Specifying an Origin
Section A.3.2: Code Following Data: Synchronisation
Section A.3.3: Mixed Code and Data: Automatic (Intelligent) Synchronisation
Section A.3.4: Other Options
Section A.4: Bugs and Improvements
Appendix B: x86 Instruction Reference
Section B.1: Key to Operand Specifications
Section B.2: Key to Opcode Descriptions
Section B.2.1: Register Values
Section B.2.2: Condition Codes
Section B.2.3: SSE Condition Predicates
Section B.2.4: Status Flags
Section B.2.5: Effective Address Encoding: ModR/M and SIB
Section B.3: Key to Instruction Flags
Section B.4: x86 Instruction Set
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