Where the hell are good Assembly books?

**Flushie** · 12-09-2010

Anyone know where good Assembly books are? I am looking at some but there iffy, post if you know names.

**danielrhodea** · 12-28-2010

In short there really are not any. You can get lists of asm functions and what they do, supported platforms etc however the books all target different assemblers and focus on superflous features that may not translate to other assemblers. If you just go to intel or amd and download their whitepapers and documentation it's free and very informative, a very small subset of asm is in most of the programs that you will read from so text-book reading really won't help at all. Also do not take what is output by a debugger as verbatim app code because of branching, self-modifying code and the platform you are running on. For example in windows alot of api and shell hooking is used and these programs will not translate to linux very well, especially not in asm which is why higher level languages were invented in the first place