Flat Assembler

fasm · fasm.fasm

An assembler for x86 processors.

The flat assembler (abbreviated to fasm, intentionally stylized with lowercase letters) is a fast assembler running in a variety of operating systems, in continued development since 1999. It was designed primarily for the assembly of x86 instructions and it supports x86 and x86-64 instructions sets with extensions like MMX, 3DNow!, SSE up to SSE4, AVX, AVX2, XOP, and AVX-512. It can produce output in plain binary, MZ, PE, COFF or ELF format. It includes a powerful but simple macroinstruction system and does multiple passes to optimize the size of instruction codes. The flat assembler is self-hosting and complete source code is included. The only difference between flat assembler versions included in the following packages is the operating system on which they can be run. For any given source text each version is going to generate exactly the same output file, therefore every one of the following releases can be used to compile programs for any operating system.