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I admit my experience is limited, but there are few things that should immediately identify some code as assembly to someone with previous experience, regardles

I admit my experience is limited, but there are few things that should immediately identify some code as assembly to someone with previous experience, regardless of the platform, such as the prevalence of the "mov" command, a "jump" command or the use of registers, using memory addresses as parameters, accssing stack using "push" and "pop" commands. Registers might have different names depending on the platform, actual command names may vary, but I would be surprised to see non-obscure platforms for which the pattern above is not valid.

benj111 8y ago
I suppose my gp wasn't very clear. Language in this context could be just ASM or it could be intel x86 DOS ASM. As I said, the gp could be a master of 6502 ASM, but not be able to tell the difference between ARM and X86.
- vlovich123 8y ago
  The question is whether it's recognizable as assembly at all rather than which specific flavor. I think it's correct that all assembly flavors tend to look very similar to each & very dissimilar from any language.