Re: Constants and strings

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I did download the program from masm32,
as well as a bunch of documentation and
samples. I haven't had a chance to look at
much of it yet. I actually asked in the asm
newsgroup and Randy Hyde told me I should
have bought his *other* book instead. Oh, well.
Apparently I bought the definitive expert's
guide. But this morning Jim Carlock explained
the idea of registers and stack to me. If I
can fill in those gaps in my knowledge then
maybe the book will end up being informative.

Looking at the masm32 install folder I see
that there are, indeed, a pile of HLP files. So
maybe I'll read those next.

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J French <erewhon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:59:17 GMT, "mayayana"
> <mayaXXyana1a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > Not surprisingly, Nirvana turns out to be
> >somewhat elusive. (Actually I'd settle for a minor
> >epiphany, or even a half-decent knowledge orgy.)
> >
> > I've been looking into Assembly and bought
> >"The Art of Assembly Language" by Randall
> >Hyde. (At 850 pages it looked definitive and he
> >also runs one of the major assembly websites.)
> > But I'm running into the same trouble of assumptions
> >about prior knowledge: By page 9 he's talking about
> >"registers" without actually explaining what they are.
> >That kind of explanation is what I bought the book for.
> > Are there also different assembly languages?
>
> I suggest you download the Assembler from
> http://www.masm32.com
>
> The Help files are quite informative
> - the section ASM Intro Help is what you need
>
> >Is "HLA" just a custom version? Should I be looking
> >elsewhere to understand the actual concept and
> >mechanincs of registers, stack, heap, etc.?
>
> I've not looked at HLA but understand that it stands for High Level
> Assembler - you would be better off starting with Low Level stuff
>
> > Matthew Curland's book goes a long way to explaining
> >the mechanics of using inline assembly language
> >in VB, which is clearly very useful for some purposes.
> >But it's too hair-raising to start fiddling with that when
> > I really just don't understand what it's doing.
>
> I learnt mainly from an old Microsoft MASM manual
>


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