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Microsoft Macro Assembler

Developer(s) Microsoft

Stable release 11.00.60610.1 / June 26, 2013

Operating system Microsoft Windows and MS-

DOS

Type Assembler

License Microsoft EULA

Microsoft Macro Assemblerm Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

e Microsoft Macro Assembler (MASM) is an x86 assembler

t uses the Intel syntax for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows.

ginning with MASM 8.0 there are two versions of the assembler-

e for 16-bit and 32-bit assembly sources, and another (ML64) for

bit sources only.

ASM is maintained by Microsoft, but since version 6.12 has not

n sold as a separateproduct, it is instead supplied with various

crosoft SDKs and C compilers. Recent versions of MASM are

luded with Microsoft Visual Studio.

Contents

1 History

2 Object module formats supported by MASM

3 Some third-party tools that support MASM

3.1 IDEs

3.2 Debuggers

3.3 Disassemblers

4 Assemblers compatible with MASM

5 See also

6 References

7 External links

istory

e earliest versions of MASM date back to 1981.[1]

to version 5.0, MASM was available as an MS-DOS application only. Versions 5.1 and 6.0 were available as both

S-DOS and OS/2 applications.[2]

rsion 6.0, released in 1992, added high-level programming support and a more C-like syntax. By the end of the year,sion 6.1A updated the memory management tobe compatible with code produced by Visual C++. In 1993 full support

32-bit applications and the Pentium instruction set was added. The MASM binary at that time was shipped as a "bi-

dal" DOS-extended binary (using the Phar Lap TNT DOS extender).

rsions 6.12 to 6.14 were implemented as patches for version 6.11. These patches changed the type of the binary to

ive PE format; version 6.11 is the last version of MASM that will run under MS-DOS.

the end of 1997 MASM fully supported Windows 95 and included some AMD-specific instructions.[3]

1999 Intel released macros for SIMD and MMX instructions, which were shortly after supported natively by MASM.th the 6.15 release in 2000, Microsoft discontinued support for MASM as a separate product, instead subsuming it into

Visual Studio toolset. Though it was still compatible with Windows 98, current versions of Visual Studio were not.[3]

pport for 64-bit processors was not added until the release of Visual Studio 2005, with MASM 8.0.

bject module formats supported by MASM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMDhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMX_(instruction_set)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMDhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executablehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phar_Lap_(company)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_P5_(microarchitecture)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kithttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsofthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOShttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bithttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_developerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsofthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_assembly_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOShttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windowshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_2005http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_98http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studiohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMX_(instruction_set)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMDhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMDhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executablehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phar_Lap_(company)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_P5_(microarchitecture)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_C%2B%2Bhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOShttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOShttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studiohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kithttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsofthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bithttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32-bithttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16-bithttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windowshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOShttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_assembly_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_architecturehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EULAhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsofthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_licensehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language#Assemblerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_categorieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOShttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windowshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_systemhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cyclehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsofthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_developer


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ly versions of MASM generated object modules using the OMF format, which was used to create binaries for MS-

OS or OS/2.

ce version 6.1, MASM is able to produce object modules in the Portable Executable[4][5] (PE/COFF) format.

/COFF is compatible with recent Microsoft C compilers, and object modules produced by either MASM or the C

mpiler can be routinely intermixed and linked into Win32 and Win64 binaries.

ome third-party tools that support MASM

Es

RadASM[6]

WinAsm Studio[7]

EasyCode[8]

Visual Studio [9]

ebuggers

OllyDbg[10]

sassemblers

IDAPro the Interactive Disassembler

ssemblers compatible with MASM

me other assemblers can assemble most code written for MASM, with the exception of more complex macros.

Turbo Assembler (TASM) developed by Borland, later owned by Embarcadero, last updated in 2002 and supplied

with Delphi and C++Builder for several years, later discontinued.

JWASM Macro Assembler, licenced under the Sybase Open Watcom EULA.

Pelle's Macro Assembler, a component of the Pelles C development environment.

ee also

Assembly language

High-level assembler

Comparison of assemblers

eferences

1. ^ Watt, Peggy; Christine McGeever (January 7, 1985). "Macintosh Vs. IBM PC At One Year"

(http://books.google.com/books?id=-i4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA16).InfoWorld7 (1): pp. 1516. ISSN 0199-6649

(//www.worldcat.org/issn/0199-6649). The IBM PC Macro Assembler was released in December 1981.

2. ^ Marshall, Martin (April 29, 1991). "Macro Assembler Update Adds High-Level Features" (http://books.google.com/books?id=y1AEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT20).InfoWorld13 (17): p. 21. ISSN 0199-6649 (//www.worldcat.org/issn/0199-6649).

3. ^ ab R. E. Harvey (2007). "Assemblers"

(http://web.archive.org/web/20080216121237/http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/r_harvey/doc_book.htm).

Archived from the original (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/r_harvey/doc_book.htm) on 16 February 2008.

Retrieved 4 February 2010.

4. ^ http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/b/a/eba1050f-a31d-436b-9281-92cdfeae4b45/pecoff.doc

^
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/PECOFF.mspxhttp://download.microsoft.com/download/e/b/a/eba1050f-a31d-436b-9281-92cdfeae4b45/pecoff.dochttp://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/r_harvey/doc_book.htmhttp://web.archive.org/web/20080216121237/http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/r_harvey/doc_book.htmhttp://www.worldcat.org/issn/0199-6649http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Serial_Numberhttp://books.google.com/books?id=y1AEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT20http://www.worldcat.org/issn/0199-6649http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Serial_Numberhttp://books.google.com/books?id=-i4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA16http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_assemblershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_assemblerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelles_Chttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JWASMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2BBuilderhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarcadero_Delphihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Assemblerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Disassemblerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadASMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executablehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOShttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relocatable_Object_Module_Formathttp://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/PECOFF.mspx


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. . . .6. ^ http://radasm.cherrytree.at/

7. ^ http://www.winasm.net/

8. ^ http://www.easycode.cat/English/index.htm

9. ^ http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/271627/Assembly-Programming-with-Visual-Studio-2010-2012

0. ^ http://www.ollydbg.de/

xternal links

Official Microsoft Macro Assembler Reference (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/afzk3475.aspx)Intro to MASM Win32 (http://www.infernodevelopment.com/introduction-masm32)

Win32 assembly tutorials using MASM (http://www.win32developer.com/asm/windows_tutorial_1.shtm)

Win32 Radasm (http://www.assembly.com.br)

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