32-bit vs 64-bit

Programming x86-64 Assembly
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my research before exercism was all about 32-bit but this track is 64-bit. I’m interested in assembly for reverse engineering and malware analysis purposes, which I’m just starting to learn about as well.

any insight into what i should focus on is appreciated. I have good experiences with exercism and other languages, but everything I’ve come across thus far says i should focus on 32-bit. Are they really that different? As far as learning to read the code anyway?

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I believe the main difference is the size of a byte/register. Aside from that, it should be fairly similar.

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that’s what i was thinking, but wanted to check. thank you

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64bit also adds 8 general purpose registers (r8 - r15) and 8 SIMD registers. This doesn’t change the 32 bit access, but can be confusing while reading 64 bit code.