There are times when understanding disassemblies from higher languages such as C or C++ are useful. Reading a book on assembly is obviously a necessary part of understanding compiler output, but in my experience writing assembly code from scratch is quite a different thing than reading and understanding the opcodes a compiler produces. The books i know on assembly don’t cover that part very well, altough I believe if you ever get in touch with assembly then mostly by trying to understand compiler output.
Do you know good in-depth tutorials (or maybe books) on how to interpret compiler output?
What I have in mind would be a presentation of common high language idioms and how they are translated to assembly by common compilers (msvc and gcc).
Many similar questions here on SO:
Most posters aim to the same thing as you, that is read assembly code and not write new one.