[ale] so im crazy

[John Mills]

Stephen -

On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Stephen Turner wrote:

> ok so maybe im crazy but i wanna learn to program in
> hex.. yea ok so i asked my teacher a lil about this
> and he pointed me to the conversions of the binary 0's
> 1's to hex.. dandy.. neat trick... now how do i make
> the hex do stuff? he says something about asembly.. i
> look up assembly for intel based processors since i
> heard the assembly language is based on processor.
> well its nothing more than text which i could slap in
> notepad instead of using a hex editor or so it seems..
> anyways im either confused at this subject or see no
> point in a hex editor except for a program dump... can
> someone straighten me out ? much appreciated :) web
> sites welcome

There's a HOWTO on this in the LDP - assembly programming in Linux, I
mean. Drop me mail if you can't find it and I'll dig up a link.

All the tools are available in the GCC suite (assembler, linker,
debugger). If you're getting started, I suggest you use an 'Integrated
Development Environment' ("IDE") like Source-Navigator instead of a simple
text editor. Alternatively there is always 'vi'. (If you're familiar with
Emacs, it works well, but the learning curve is pretty @#$%!! stiff if
you're just starting out.) Source-Navigator is available through
[http://sources.redhat.com], and there are almost surely 'rpm'
installations available.

Go for it, but use good tools and you'll get further.
 
Regards -
 John Mills


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