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<h2 id="chapter-1">Chapter 1: Introduction</h2>
<h3 id="section-1.1">1.1 What Is NASM?</h3>
<p>The Netwide Assembler, NASM, is an 80x86 and x86-64 assembler designed
for portability and modularity. It supports a range of object file formats,
including Linux and <code>*BSD</code> <code>a.out</code>, <code>ELF</code>,
<code>COFF</code>, <code>Mach-O</code>, 16-bit and 32-bit <code>OBJ</code>
(OMF) format, <code>Win32</code> and <code>Win64</code>. It will also
output plain binary files, Intel hex and Motorola S-Record formats. Its
syntax is designed to be simple and easy to understand, similar to the
syntax in the Intel Software Developer Manual with minimal complexity. It
supports all currently known x86 architectural extensions, and has strong
support for macros.</p>
<p>NASM also comes with a set of utilities for handling the
<code>RDOFF</code> custom object-file format.</p>
<h4 id="section-1.1.1">1.1.1 License Conditions</h4>
<p>Please see the file <code>LICENSE</code>, supplied as part of any NASM
distribution archive, for the license conditions under which you may use
NASM. NASM is now under the so-called 2-clause BSD license, also known as
the simplified BSD license.</p>
<p>Copyright 1996-2017 the NASM Authors – All rights reserved.</p>
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