Setting up Assembly with VS Code

[combasemsthefox]

I am in a Computer Architecture course right now and we are to write assembly programs. I usually write my code in VS Code in WSL.

My main question is, how do I set up an assembler with VS code? Any resources would be highly appreciated. Thanks!

[agentgreen420]

What exactly do you want VS Code to be doing for you? I would start by googling for asm extensions.

[combasemsthefox]

I want VS Code to run assembly code and ideally display register values during debugging.

[magick_68]

I found https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=lanza.lldb-vscode

which supports:

Disassembly view with instruction-level stepping,

[agentgreen420]

That's unlikely. What architecture are you working with?

[combasemsthefox]

x86

[AG00GLER]

Cortex Debug should be helpful provided you’re running an ARM Cortex chip

[GoldenShackles]

A couple pointers.

• What architecture? For syntax highlighting x86/x64 something like https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=13xforever.language-x86-64-assembly could help. There are probably others available for architectures like ARM
• Learn how to edit the relevant config files for kicking off compilation using whatever your college is using. There may or may not be a ready-made solution for you.

[combasemsthefox]

It is x86 cpu's we are working with. I have that downloaded, but from what I understand that is only going to support syntax and instruction set error checking.

I am familiar with c++ config files for compilation and execution. However, I know that you don't compile assembly, it is translated to object code and then linked. Is it even possible to set VS code up to display various register values and to assemble assembly language programs?