> Intel's syntax is most common, not the AT&T one. I'd be a little bit more careful with such a statement: Under Windows (and formerly DOS) Intel syntax is the

> Intel's syntax is most common, not the AT&T one. I'd be a little bit more careful with such a statement: Under Windows (and formerly DOS) Intel syntax is the common one, while under GNU/Linux and OSX the AT&T one is used. > If you translate mov into =, the syntax makes much more sense than AT&T. Though I prefer the Intel syntax, I'd be careful with "makes sense" here: According to http://stackoverflow.com/a/4119217/497193 http://stackoverflow.com/a/4119217/497193 people who grew up with MIPS seem to prefer the AT&T syntax since it is much more similar to MIPS assembler.