What are the practical advantages of learning Assembly?

Asked 2009-01-07T23:28:07.447

Most people suggest that learning assembly is essential, its important to know the underlying workings of the computer, and so forth. But what I'm looking for are some practical suggestions that will make the effort of learning Assembly to be worth it.

What are your suggestions? What am I missing out on by not learning Assembly and pointers/memory management in general?

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Another practical reason I can think of is reverse engineering application code to modify it for educational purposes ONLY, since this is widely used by crackers to bypass shareware application protections like time-limit or serial numbers.

An application like win32Dasm can convert executables into assembly code that can later be modified with a Hex editor like hiew. You can learn quite a lot about the flow of the program.

answered 2009-01-07T23:52:21.030

What are the practical advantages of learning Assembly?

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