The Netwide Assembler, usually called NASM, is an assembler and disassembler for the Intel x86 architecture. It can be used to write 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit programs, and it is considered one of the most popular assemblers for Linux and x86 chips. Simon Tatham wrote it with help from Julian Hall, and a small team led by H. Peter Anvin has maintained it since at least 2016. NASM can emit many object formats, including COFF, OMF, a.out, ELF and Mach-O, as well as flat binary files used for boot loaders, ROM images and operating system development, and it has its own RDOFF format for testing. It uses a variant of Intel syntax rather than AT&T syntax. Version 0.90 appeared in October 1996 and version 2.00 in November 2007 added x86-64 support. Since version 2.07 in 2009 it has been released under the simplified two-clause BSD license; the earlier LGPL licence led to the separate Yasm rewrite.
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Netwide Assembler is an open source assembly language created in 1996.
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It can also create flat binary files, usable to write boot loaders, read-only memory (ROM) images, and in various facets of OS development.
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The Netwide Assembler (NASM) is an assembler and disassembler for the Intel x86 architecture.
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