<story><title>How to Read Assembly Language</title><url>https://wolchok.org/posts/how-to-read-assembly-language/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>Godbolt is a fun tool: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;godbolt.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;godbolt.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The story I heard, was that the author is one of these obsessive genius types, who was having a debate about compiler efficiency, so he wrote an entire compiler engine to prove his point.&lt;p&gt;I can understand that.&lt;p&gt;This is a great article. Being able to descend into machine code&amp;#x2F;assembly is a valuable “tool of last resort.”&lt;p&gt;Personally, I avoid that like the plague, but an OS developer probably still needs to do this (I developed system stuff, back in the Dawn Times).&lt;p&gt;I started off with Machine Code, so it’s been a long, strange trip, for me...</text></comment>
<story><title>How to Read Assembly Language</title><url>https://wolchok.org/posts/how-to-read-assembly-language/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nayuki</author><text>My take on learning assembly: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nayuki.io&amp;#x2F;page&amp;#x2F;a-fundamental-introduction-to-x86-assembly-programming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nayuki.io&amp;#x2F;page&amp;#x2F;a-fundamental-introduction-to-x86...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>