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Is it safe to program and run assembly programs on windows OS?

Mar 31st, 2004 04:07
Ian Smith, Mark Schlichtmann,

Assembly programs can do anything to your system that a normal
application is able to do. C/C++ software can be automatically converted
to assembler programs using the gcc -S command on Linux systems. On
windows there are a number of assembler language implementations
allowing developers to read the bytecode into a more human readable
format, with appropriate syntax. Raw assembly is not something your
system can just execute, you need to convert the files to a binary
format. If you are interested in learning assembler on Windows OS, I
would recommend MASM to start with. There are better assembly tools out
there, with DLL profiling and/or disassembly tools but most of them
discuss or are based on MASM.
Short answer: not safe.