How do I compile assembly code?

Question

A good friend of mine found and gave me a book on intel 80x86 assembly coding. One rather large fact that the books skips over is what program you should use to code with. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Depending on your platform, you may be interested in gas, yasm, nasm, or masm. Most Linux systems should have one of the first three in their package management system, and the fourth, the Microsoft Macro Assembler, is free on the internet.