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Re:A Crash Course in X86 Assembly for Reverse Engineers (201... by to3m on Saturday December 03, 2016 @04:42PM (#13097645)
Who is this for? If you're a regular reverse engineer, won't you just pick up the Intel reference manual and flick through it? (It has a sorted instruction reference, which you'll probably find much more useful than anything categorised.) And if you're not, I'd have thought knowing an assembly language already a rather important prerequisite - seems like a very strange line of work to pick otherwise - and in that case you'd presumably do the same thing.
Re:A Crash Course in X86 Assembly for Reverse Engineers (201... by dabockster on Saturday December 03, 2016 @10:26PM (#13098648)
>won't you just pick up the Intel reference manual and flick through it?

The Intel reference manual is incredibly bloated and dry reading. Yeah, it has literally everything you would want to know. But good luck trying to understand all of it in a reasonable amount of time.

I learned x86 while studying buffer overflows in college. We used Hacking: The Art of Exploitation which walked us through most of the core concepts really well.

https://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Art-Exploitation-Jon-Erickson...