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Jump to PostI assume you mean 64-bit processors. The answer is yes because they are still in the x86 family of processors. Intel didn't completly replace the 32 and 16-bit processors, they added to them. 64 and 32 bit processors still use the 16 and 8 bit processor instruction set.
Jump to PostWhich book, and in what context? Are you certain it wasn't discussing Itanium processors (IA-64, Intel's first attempt at a 64-bit successor to the IA-32 line - better known as x86), rather than x86-64 processors? The former are indeed very different from the x86 series CPUs, but they never gained …
Jump to PostAssembly Language Step-by-Step Programming with DOS and Linux by Jeff duntamen.It is an old book.Like around 2000 !
Ah, that explains it. It's an excellent textbook, but that edition came out before the x86-64 line was introduced; it was talking about Itanium, which was brand-new at the time.
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Jump to PostYes there IS a really BIG difference writing 64bit Assembly code verses 32bit code. Especially when it comes to Windows Programming (I am sure Linux is the same). You have a different calling convention, "shadow space", more memory addresses, more registers, stack should be/has to be aligned.
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