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by freep1zza 254 days ago
> Yes, though that weird stuff with dollars in it is not normal AArch64 assembly!

See the AT&T vs Intel syntax since you aren't familiar with assembly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_assembly_language#Syntax

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That's an x86 thing, though.
There are more assembler dialects than I care to remember.

The 2A06 assembler that people who write NES code (and later on SNES/GB/etc) use has some real quirks: $ prefixes a literal hex value but % is binary, but # in front of that is an address, registers are baked into the opcode (ldx -> load into X), and more.

Playstation folks all just used MIPS dialects which are mostly AT&Tish but the PS2 used an Intel style assembler.