Operating System Design :: Lessons :: The Assembler
The Assembler
For this lesson you should read Chapter 6 from the book Building a Modern Computer From First Principles. You will also want to read the assembler tutorial. After reading the chapter you should be able to do the following:
- Describe the tasks necessary for an assembler to translate assembly language into binary instructions.
- Write an assembler for programs with no symbols.
- Write an assembler for programs with symbols.