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PC Assembly language book
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Possibility to support 64-bit some day? #1

Closed stefanos82 closed 1 year ago

stefanos82 commented 7 years ago

@pacman128 First of all, thank you very much for the book, it looks amazing.

As the title says, are there any plans to support 64-bit in the near future? I'm currently teaching myself assembly using my Linux system and I'm facing some issues with some material I have found online.

Some websites teach assembly while using Intel's syntax and some AT&T's, which is confusing me a lot.

By the way, would it be a problem if the book's style change a bit? I'm quite comfortable using LaTeX and one of my eccentricities is producing good-looking ebooks.

Right now I'm trying to mimic the look of this book which has one of the most appealing styles I have ever seen.

Are you open for such change or should I use it for my own version?

Cheers.

pacman128 commented 7 years ago

There's not much chance I'm going to do this. I looked into this, but it would take an immense amount of time to do this well. I taught myself 32-bit assembly when I was teaching (and before kids) when I had lots of time to pursue projects like this. I'm a full time developer now and don't have the time now.

However, one of the reasons I've started to put this up on github is to allow others to adapt my text for projects just like this. In next few weeks, I should be putting up the different language translations and formalizing a license.

stefanos82 commented 7 years ago

No worries. I'm looking forward to see how this project is going to evolve.

lighterowl commented 7 years ago

I've been going through the book and listing things that would need changing if 64-bit support was introduced. However, the more I read, the more I'm convinced that the only way to do this that makes sense is to effectively create a branch of the book. This way, all the information already available in the 32-bit version of the book remains accurate and available, while at the same time not being clobbered with a lot of "32 does it this way, 64 does it differently" phrases. Choice of the processor's bitness affects pretty much everything :