I am very new to assembly, so please forgive the dumbest question which is about to follow, but before I say it I want to let you know something.

I have looked over the documentation that came with flat assembler and I have the 3,500 page Intel instructions for all their processors. Obviously I have not gone through everything exhaustively, but using search I can't seem to find some basic commands. At least I call them commands. I don't know what they are called.

For example: dd and db. I think they are commands to allocate memory for your variables, but not exactly sure.

My question is this: Where can I find a fairly exhaustive list of what everything does from 'mov' to 'dd'??? I can't seem to find this. I have a book on learning assembly as well, but prefer this assembler and have to convert code for this instead of MASM.

Again, sorry for the stupid question.

-Gem

Perhaps the first thing to realise is that you are conflating the assembler and the instruction set.

The instructions of the CPU (the ISA) are what the Intel manual is giving you. And the fasm manual is where the other things are that are related to the assembler, source code, macros, output formats, OS integration, etc.

So you won't really be able to find such a list as a single resource because of the differing places that they are generated.

Once you have digested the Intel manual (and the AMD manual also) then that will only take you as far as how the CPU works. After that you need to read the fasm manual (and other source code) to determine how to make a program and assemble it for your OS.

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gemurdock
I guess you looked not good enough into the fasm manual, because it describes both the compiler-specific directives such as dd (see 1.2.2. Data Definitions) as well as the CPU architecture specific instructions (see 2.1 The x86 architecture instructions). These are reasonably not on the same list but are still in the same manual.

@revolution

Thanks you.

@HaHaAnonymous

What do the instruction sets do? Is this like 'mov' or 'add'?

@I_inc

Yup, I totally missed the data definitions. Thanks for pointing that out! They hid it right in the beginning!

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Sorry about that everyone! I should have looked closer.

> I am very new to assembly, so please forgive the dumbest

Welcome to the FASM forum

> have the 3,500 page Intel instructions for all their processors

There is even a book with 4'500 pages

You might want to look into the FAQ http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=2530 http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?p=134818#134818 and the 80386 manual, the latest manuals indeed do fix a few errors, but add a huge amount of junk completely useless for beginners.