Add clarification that the code is of x86 32bit

[harryhanYuhao]

As the system call opecode for 32-bit and 64-bit linux are different, may be it is helpful to add explicit clarification that the code in tutorial is of 32 bit, and can not be assembled by nasm to elf64 format.

[q2dg]

In fact, in 2024 these tutorials should be modified to support x64 architecture the sooner the better.

[bar2011]

Currently following the tutorial and porting everything to x64 as I go (I want to learn x64 so porting it and researching over every specific topic helps learning). Should I just create a pull request with the finished files as soon as I'm done?

[DGivney]

Hey @bar2011

Apologies, I meant to follow up on this sooner but time got away.

There is a comment in the header of each code example on the website and in the repo with instructions for linking on 64-bit systems.

The original motivation for this repo was to learn enough 32-bit syntax so I could understand the 16-bit DOS cracking tutorials that were online during the early web and which I was reading through in an archive at the time. I was interested in learning 8-bit and 16-bit programming at the time and wanted to write a game. This is the decision behind why I chose to use interrupts instead of a more modern convention.

Given that background - I don't think this is the right project to contain any 64-bit tutorials but I think it would be cool to add a list of links in the readme to any other repos inspired by asmtutor and ported to other architectures? What do you think?

[bar2011]

Really nice way to learn!
I'm going to use this strategy in the future when learning a new language...

About linking to other architectures, I think linking x86-64 Linux will be really helpful, maybe for other assemblers as well, but I’m not sure about MacOS or Windows.
I’m using a MacBook, and I still chose to use Linux, and I didn’t hear about many people who used other OSs, mainly because they have so bad documentation