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My first assembler program on Linux :-)
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theanswer.asm
section .text
global _start
_start:
mov rdi, 42
mov rax, 60 ; sys_exit
syscall
; assemble the elf64 object file with nasm:
; nasm -f elf64 theanswer.asm
; and then link to a binary with ld:
; ld -e _start -o theanswer theanswer.o
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Some reference material:
nasm documentation
AMD 64 instruction set documentation
Hello, world!
Linux x64 syscall reference

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