Assembly language

An assembly language is a low-level programming language for computers, microprocessors, microcontrollers, and other programmable devices in which each statement corresponds to a single machine language instruction. An assembly language is thus specific to a certain physical (or virtual) computer architecture, in contrast to most high-level programming languages, which, ideally, are portable. Assembly language allows the use of symbolic representation for machine operation codes (usually called mnemonics), memory locations, registers and other parts of an instruction. A utility program called an assembler is used to translate assembly language statements into the target computer's machine code. Many advanced assemblers offer additional...