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The Windows application programming interface (API) is a set of functions that can be used by a developer to interact with the operating system. As mentioned in the previous chapter, syscalls are not a reliable way to communicate with the operating system, but Microsoft provides a large set of APIs to accomplish just about everything you could think of. The Windows API is written with the C programming language in mind, but if we comply with the calling conventions, we can easily use the Windows API in our assembler programs. The description of the Windows API can be found here (at the time of this writing): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/ .
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Van Hoey, J. (2019). Using the Windows API. In: Beginning x64 Assembly Programming. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5076-1_40
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