section .data ; Define strings and their lengths introMsg dw "ALP to detect the operating mode of the microprocessor and display the contents of some system registers" introMsgLen equ $ - introMsg gdtrMsg db 10,10,"Contents of GDTR : ",10 gdtrMsgLen equ $ - gdtrMsg ldtrMsg db 10,10,"Contents of LDTR : ",10 ldtrMsgLen equ $ - ldtrMsg idtrMsg db 10,10,"Contents of IDTR : ",10 idtrMsgLen equ $ - idtrMsg trMsg db 10,10,"Contents of TR : ",10 trMsgLen equ $ - trMsg mswMsg db 10,10,"Contents of MSW (CR0) register : ",10 mswMsgLen equ $ - mswMsg protectedMsg db 10,10,"The Microprocessor is in the protected mode" protectedMsgLen equ $ - protectedMsg proMsg db 10,10,"The contents of the system registers are as follows : " proMsgLen equ $ - proMsg realMsg db 10,10,"The Microprocessor is in the real mode" realMsgLen equ $ - realMsg colon db " : " colonLen equ $ - colon section .bss ; Define uninitialized memory to store system register values gdtr resd 1 ;to store 48-bit GDTR value-resd(32-bit) and resw(16-bit). resw 1 ldtr resw 1 ;to store 16-bit LDTR idtr resd 1 ;to store 48-bit IDTR value-resd(32-bit) and resw(16-bit). resw 1 tr resw 1 msw resd 1 result resb 4 %macro write 2 ; Define a macro for writing to stdout using syscall mov rax,1 ; syscall number for sys_write mov rdi,1 ; file descriptor 1 (stdout) mov rsi,%1 ; pointer to the message to be printed mov rdx,%2 ; length of the message syscall %endmacro section .text global _start _start: ; Print introductory message write introMsg,introMsgLen smsw eax ; Store the contents of the MSW register into the EAX register. bt eax,0 ; Copy the 0th least significant bit from EAX to the carry flag. jc protected_mode ; If CF is set, processor is in protected mode write realMsg,realMsgLen ; Print message indicating real mode jmp endOfProgram ; Jump to end of program protected_mode : write protectedMsg , protectedMsgLen ; Print message indicating protected mode write proMsg , proMsgLen ; Print message indicating contents of system registers sgdt [gdtr] ; Store the content of the global descriptor table register (GDTR) in gdtr sldt [ldtr] ; Store LDTR str [tr] ; Store TR smsw [msw] ; Store MSW ; Print contents of GDTR write gdtrMsg,gdtrMsgLen mov bx,[gdtr+4] ; Move upper half of GDTR into bx reg. call disp mov bx,[gdtr+2] call disp write colon , colonLen mov bx,[gdtr] call disp ; Print contents of LDTR write ldtrMsg,ldtrMsgLen mov bx,[ldtr] call disp ; Print contents of IDTR write idtrMsg,idtrMsgLen mov bx,[idtr+4] call disp mov bx,[idtr+2] call disp write colon , colonLen mov bx,[idtr] call disp ; Print contents of TR write trMsg,trMsgLen mov bx,[tr] call disp ; Print contents of MSW write mswMsg,mswMsgLen mov bx,[msw+2] ; Upper half of CR0 or MSW call disp mov bx,[msw] call disp endOfProgram: ; Terminate the program mov rax, 60 mov rdi, 0 syscall disp: ; Procedure to convert binary to ASCII and print mov rdi, result ; Point rdi to result variable mov cx,04 ; Load count of rotation in cl up1: rol bl,04 ; Rotate number left by four bits mov dl,bl ; Move lower byte in dl and dl,0fh ; Get only LSB cmp dl,09h ; Compare with 39h jg add_37 ; If greater than 39h skip add 37 add dl,30h ; Else add 30 jmp skip1 ; Skip to add_37 add_37: add dl,37h ; Add 37 skip1: mov [rdi],dl ; Store ASCII code in result variable inc rdi ; Point to next byte dec cx ; Decrement the count of digits to display jnz up1 ; If not zero, repeat write result , 4 ; Write the result to stdout ret ; Return
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Assembly language(asm) is a low-level programming language, where the language instructions will be more similar to machine code instructions.
Every assembler may have it's own assembly language designed for a specific computers or an operating system.
Assembly language requires less execution time and memory. It is more helful for direct hardware manipulation, real-time critical applications. It is used in device drivers, low-level embedded systems etc.
Assembly language usually consists of three sections,
Data section
To initialize variables and constants, buffer size these values doesn't change at runtime.
bss section
To declare variables
text section
_start
specifies the starting of this section where the actually code is written.
There are various define directives to allocate space for variables for both initialized and uninitialized data.
variable-name define-directive initial-value
Define Directive | Description | Allocated Space |
---|---|---|
DB | Define Byte | 1 byte |
DW | Define Word | 2 bytes |
DD | Define Doubleword | 4 bytes |
DQ | Define Quadword | 8 bytes |
DT | Define Ten Bytes | 10 bytes |
Define Directive | Description |
---|---|
RESB | Reserve a Byte |
RESW | Reserve a Word |
RESD | Reserve a Doubleword |
RESQ | Reserve a Quadword |
REST | Reserve a Ten Bytes |
Constants can be defined using
CONSTANT_NAME EQU regular-exp or value
%assign constant_name value
%define constant_name value
Loops are used to iterate a set of statements for a specific number of times.
mov ECX,n
L1:
;<loop body>
loop L1
where n specifies the no of times loops should iterate.
Procedure is a sub-routine which contains set of statements. Usually procedures are written when multiple calls are required to same set of statements which increases re-usuability and modularity.
procedure_name:
;procedure body
ret