Question about Assembly and MASM

[Ehsanullah]

hello everybody,

I have some basic questions in my mind related to MASM and assembly language

1. why do we have to study assembly? as we have more powerful and easy languages available like C, C ++, java etc.

2. while making executable file  MASM generates two other file a list file and an object file what are the purpose of these file and how can we read their contents.

[hutch--]

Well, it is a matter of fact that in computer languages that produce binary file (EXE DLL etc...) that MASM is a lot more powerful than the higher level languages, its just more work to write and understand it.

The OBJ module is normal for a language that uses a linker as it allows you to write libraries and use modules written in another language, C and MASM are usually interchangable as they use the same object module format.

You can turn off the list file if you don't need it by changing the options.