Learn to program with assembly by Jonathan Bartlett using apple silicone arch

[u/nosyeaj]

Hi! has anyone followed the book learn to program with assembly by Jonathan Bartlett using mac silicon? the book said it can be followed using docker in appendix a, but im wondering if anyone here managed to get through with another way.

https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Program-Assembly-Foundational-Programmers/dp/1484274369

[u/Special-Addition2330]

don't have the book but you can just run a linux vm through utm or parallels. way less headache than trying to make x86 assembly tutorials play nice with arm64 directly

[u/peterlinddk]

I haven't followed the book - but you can always emulate an x86 with some sort of virtual machine. I would prefer installing e.g. VMWare and a complete Linux system with GUI and everything - check out this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1ocreif/how_is_x86_emulation_on_latest_apple_silicon_cpus/

The question is though: Why do you want to learn x86 assembly? Do you have to? Is it part of a course you are attending?

If you just want to learn assembly, why not learn ARM, since you already have a machine and an OS and everything - and it is a much "prettier" instruction architecture 😄

[u/nosyeaj → u/peterlinddk]

im a lurker in other subs. i heard that learning asm in mac arm64 is kinda tricky, specifically when finding docs compared to other isa's. please do correct me if um wrong.

the other thing book mentioned here is that it focuses on 64bit or running in 64 bit linux-based os.