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During this year there will be coming couple sub-600€ multi-touch portable computers that contain Tegra2. They bring me to a good excuse to learning ARM assembly language. But I have no clue where to start from aside the arm.com.
For first throw I could just pick up an emulator with a linux distribution in it. But which emulator and distro would work best on this one? Having access to the host system's files would be okay so I could compile and execute ARM binaries straight from my home-directory.
I wouldn't want to waste much money to books so I'd need some assembly source code examples and a good free introduction to the instruction set. gcc compiler flags for compiling ARM programs on x86 would be also nice but I might find them out myself as well.
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It is often specific to a particular computer architecture so there are multiple types of assembly languages. ARM is an increasingly popular assembly language. We just published a full course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel that will teach you the basics of assembly language programming with ARM.
ARM Cortex-A Series Programmer's Guide for ARMv7-A Assembly language is a low-level programming language. There is in general, a one-to-one relationship between assembly language instructions (mnemonics) and the actual binary opcode executed by the core.
Yes. In my opinion it is a great idea to learn assembly language. You'll learn how computer programs are organized and runs at the lowest level. How function call works, how do arguments get passed around and how different types of values get returned from functions.
Obtain an evaluation version of of one of the arm software toolkits which will include a debugger/software emulator. If you're willing to spend a few hundred dollars, obtain an arm eval board (Keil sells a few). You can test your code on the board via a JTAG interface and see what happens on real hardware.
These should get your going in the right direction
Disclosure: I work for ARM.
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