Re: [Pgubook-readers] pgubook-reader

[Bryn Reeves]

On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 17:02, dirk selter wrote:
> Hallo Mr. Bartlett,
> i wish to thank you for  having published this absorbing book. Programs works 
> all on SuSE after assembling with as-assembler. Is it the same assembler used 
> in linux-programming (kernel) ?
>  give my regards to you
> dirk selter, germany
> 

Hi Dirk,
Most of the Linux kernel is written in C. The limited parts which are
coded in either pure or inline assembler are restricted to the arch/ and
include/asm-<arch> subdirectories and are written in the appropriate
assembly dialect for each platform. 

Having said that, GNU 'as', (the assembler used in PGU) is part of the
GNU toolchain, and so is what GCC uses to assemble compiled C code into
object code, so infact, yes: it is the assembler used in the linux
kernel. 

Kind regards,

Bryn.