section .data
    num1 db 7              
    num2 db 11             
    msg_first db "First is closer", 10    
    msg_first_len equ $ - msg_first       
    msg_second db "Second is closer", 10  
    msg_second_len equ $ - msg_second     
    msg_equal db "Equidistant", 10        
    msg_equal_len equ $ - msg_equal       

section .text
    global _start

_start:

    movzx rax, byte [num1]  
    movzx rbx, byte [num2]  

    sub rax, 10             
    jge no_abs1             
    neg rax                 
no_abs1:

    sub rbx, 10             
    jge no_abs2             
    neg rbx                 
no_abs2:

    cmp rax, rbx            
    jl first_closer         
    jg second_closer        
    jmp equidistant         

first_closer:
    mov rax, 1              
    mov rdi, 1              
    mov rsi, msg_first      
    mov rdx, msg_first_len  
    syscall
    jmp exit

second_closer:
    mov rax, 1              
    mov rdi, 1              
    mov rsi, msg_second     
    mov rdx, msg_second_len 
    syscall
    jmp exit

equidistant:
    mov rax, 1              
    mov rdi, 1              
    mov rsi, msg_equal      
    mov rdx, msg_equal_len  
    syscall

exit:
    mov rax, 60             
    xor rdi, rdi            
    syscall                  
by

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About Assembly

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.

Syntax help

Assembly language usually consists of three sections,

  1. Data section

    To initialize variables and constants, buffer size these values doesn't change at runtime.

  2. bss section

    To declare variables

  3. text section

    _start specifies the starting of this section where the actually code is written.

Variables

There are various define directives to allocate space for variables for both initialized and uninitialized data.

1. To allocate storage space to Initialized data

Syntax

variable-name    define-directive    initial-value 
Define DirectiveDescriptionAllocated Space
DBDefine Byte1 byte
DWDefine Word2 bytes
DDDefine Doubleword4 bytes
DQDefine Quadword8 bytes
DTDefine Ten Bytes10 bytes

2. To allocate storage space to un-initialized data

Define DirectiveDescription
RESBReserve a Byte
RESWReserve a Word
RESDReserve a Doubleword
RESQReserve a Quadword
RESTReserve a Ten Bytes

Constants

Constants can be defined using

1. equ

  • To define numeric constants
CONSTANT_NAME EQU regular-exp or value

2. %assign

  • To define numeric constants.
%assign constant_name value

3. %define

  • To define numeric or string constants.
%define constant_name value

Loops

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.

Procedures

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