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    The document provides an overview of the NASM basics lab which aims to teach students about assembly source code structure and declaring variables. It outlines tasks for students to complete an ASM program that initializes and copies variables, performs arithmetic operations, and computes the sum of an array.

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    The document provides an overview of the NASM basics lab which aims to teach students about assembly source code structure and declaring variables. It outlines tasks for students to complete an ASM program that initializes and copies variables, performs arithmetic operations, and computes the sum of an array.

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    Lab 03: NASM Basics

    1. Overview
    A properly formatted assembly source file consists of several sections;

    • Data section where initialized data is declared and defined.


    • BSS section where uninitialized data is declared.
    • Text section where code is placed.

    2. Objectives
    This lab aims to provide students with ability:

    a) To get used to assembly source code (.asm)


    b) To declare variables in data section, uninitilalized variables in bss section.
    c) To copy data from a source memory to destination.
    d) To load, set breakpoints, run program sep-by-step, examining CPU registers, memory areas in
    the program.

    3. Lab Environment
    Students can either practice the labs with Ubuntu linux VM (VirtualBox) or WSL2 (preferable).
    On either way, install nasm, gcc, gdb-peda by doing the following commands at linux prompt:
    ~# sudo apt update
    ~# sudo apt install git nasm gcc gcc-multilib
    ~# git clone https://github.com/longld/peda.git ~/peda
    ~# echo "source ~/peda/peda.py" >> ~/.gdbinit
    For writing code, students are recommended to install VSCode with the following extensions:

    Extensions Description

    nasm x86 syntax highlighting Code highlighting

    Remote - WSL Code in WSL remotely

    Remote - SSH Connect to VM via ssh to code remotely

    Note for Apple computer equipped with Apple silicon processor:


    This lab (and all the subsequent ones) only runs on computers with Intel processors. Students
    who own the Apple-silicon processor (M1/M2) computers must use a cloud-based VM or
    github codespaces (preferable).

    4. Tasks
    4.1. Compose an ASM program in nano text editor

    Start nano with line number indicator by:

    seed@ubuntu:~$ code second.asm


    Compose an assembly program that fulfil the following requirements:

    Initialized variables

    Var name Data type Initialized values


    bNum Byte 5
    wNum Word -128
    dNum Double-word 0x12345678
    List Array of 16-bit words 0x1000, 0x2000, 0x3000, 0x4000, 0x5000
    Hello String Netwide Assembly
    line_of_a String String of 40 ‘a’

    Unititialized variable

    Var name Data type Number of elements


    bArr Array of bytes 5
    wArr Array of words 5
    cArr Array of char 20

    4.2. Compile source code and link to create executable file

    Compile source code with nasm then load executable file in gdb

    4.3. Examine the memory (*)

    Answer the following questions:


    a) List the location (address) of program’s variables?
    b) Verify the value at those addresses?
    4.4. Copy the memory and inspect the result (*)

    To accomplish this task, the students need to refer to the internet resources for arithmetic assembly
    instructions
    Modify the source file, add code to compute Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Quotient, Remainder
    of two variables, store the result in variables.
    Compile source code, load executable file in gdb then inspect the memories to check the results.
    4.5 Do the following (*)
    To accomplish this task, the students need to refer to the internet resources for assembly instructions
    like memory copying, string operations, …
    Modify the source code to do the following:
    a) Fill bArr with the value of bNum
    b) Copy list to wArr
    c) Copy hello string to cArr
    d) Print out cArr to console
    Compile source code, load executable file in gdb then inspect the memories to check the results.
    4.6 Compute the sum of an array
    Compute the sum of elements from list array, load the program in gdb to check the result.

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