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Comment by PunchyHamster

2 days ago

that's not assembler tho - that's assembly like language translated into actual ISA machine code. And going with AT&T will just annoy people for no good reason (despise what article claims)

How is this not an assembler?—even with your description which matches an assembler to a tee. It genuinely is an assembler, and I am not sure how you are thinking otherwise.

And where is the AT&T? Did you even look at the syntax or read the article? Is it just the use of `%rex` to prevent namespace collisions with parameters and constants which could hypothetically be named `rex` (and there could be good reasons they are named that too)? There are no other sigils in the grammar. The order of the operands is Intel-like. The memory operand syntax is Intel-like.