[duaneb]

I thought, for a moment, that there was a dialect of assembly language in some way related to the kernel.

[ajross]

There sort of is. The kernel is one of the few places where gas is assumed and AT&T syntax prevails. Tutorials for "x86 assembly" in general almost always use the incompatible Intel syntax.

(They both suck, by the way. Just in different ways.)

[mahmud]

GAS is verbose but is "strongly typed", in a Willy-Wonka Hungarian-notation sort of a way.