I bought a PC kit and it said "some assembly required" so I always try to link at least one asm file in my projects.
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Generally speaking the OS is your universe and you interact via syscalls. Linking libc is also an option.
In some instances you may need to roll your own, but it's likely to be small and specialized.
:stares in genX:
That's not assembly, that's ikea.
Back in my day...
Remember before .dlls were a thing and you had to write your own config files for every game that you installed on DOS?
I was taught assembler in my second year at school
It's kind of like construction work
With a toothpick, for a tool
~ The Eternal Flame, by Bob Kanefsky
I have. Mostly on embedded devices that have no OS and you need something very specific.
... Or that one time i was reverse engineering a console kernel. I wrote arm asm then. Was actually fun to do tbh
ARM assembly is so lovely to work with compared to the old CISC garbage.
m68k assembly was my favorite back in the day.
I love ARM assembly so much that I'm looking at it right now.
IOS right?
Haha ye. It is super interesting to see all those OS principals and seeing how nintendo implemented them. Stuff i will never forget either and some design patterns i have implemented in my actual job too
If everything above ASM is the Universe, what is below? What is the ALU, CU and everything else that goes into Processor design? What comes before the Universe?
Solid state physics.
I write assembly for test cases and early setup code. I read far more assembly than I write.