How to decompile an exe or a dll to assembly

Question

I am really interested in assembly language and I want to learn about how exe files work how dlls run etc... and I have an idea of writing an application to decompile an exe

Answer 1

If you're interested in what a compiled program looks like at the a assembler level a much more meaningful approach would be compile and look at the generated assembly. For example with gcc/g++ this just requires gcc -c -S filename.c and will leave a clear text assembly file to look at.