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Asked: 2026-05-30T06:27:06+00:00

I’m trying to make my own assembler (as in NASM, MASM, etc.), but I

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I’m trying to make my own assembler (as in NASM, MASM, etc.), but I don’t know where to start. I understand x86 assembly, but I don’t know much about how assemblers work. Where should I start? Google isn’t helping my in this instance. Is there any sites that would be useful in learning this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    An assembler (not to be confused with a linker) is a program that does two things:

    • It replaces labels with actual addresses
    • It converts the memotechnical names into opcodes and stores them on an so called object file.

    All you need is an lookup table for which maps names to opcodes. It should be quite straight forward to do it.

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