1 The Netwide Assembler, NASM, is an 80x86 assembler designed for portability
2 and modularity. It supports a range of object file formats, including Linux
3 a.out and ELF, NetBSD/FreeBSD, COFF, Microsoft 16-bit OBJ and Win32. It will
4 also output plain binary files. Its syntax is designed to be simple and easy
5 to understand, similar to Intel's but less complex.