Sorry, I thought I was pretty clear. There is nothing I would consider an assembly language there are Instruction sets X86, power, arm, mips, etc. Then there ar

Sorry, I thought I was pretty clear. There is nothing I would consider an assembly language there are Instruction sets X86, power, arm, mips, etc. Then there are (textual) instruction layouts GAS, Intel etc. Pretty much one per assembler. So when people mention something being written in assembly language they almost always mean the instruction set, but being able to compile and run almost always means a second round of guess that syntax that has nothing to do with which ISA it came from. Calling it X86 assembly language is about like saying I wrote this in High Level Language and have that refer to pretty much any High level language in existence. It all runs on the same ISA so it must be the same language. Can't feed it all to the same compiler and have it work, so what that is just an implementation detail.