stripped down template for viewing assembly produced by zig

view_asm.zig

// zig build-obj --emit asm --strip --release-small view_asm.zig && cat view_asm.s

const std = @import("std");

pub fn panic(msg: []const u8, stack_trace: ?*std.builtin.StackTrace) noreturn {
    while (true) {}
}

export nakedcc fn _start() noreturn {
    // code here will appear in _start section
    // unless it isn't used
    aeou() catch unreachable;
    std.os.exit(0);
    // while (true) {}
}

fn aeou() !void {
    _ = try std.os.write(1, "hello world\n");
}

// to build exe. first create view_asm.o then create exe
// zig build-obj --strip --release-small view_asm.zig
// zig build-exe --object view_asm.o --name view_asm

// one liner
// zig build-obj --strip --release-small view_asm.zig && zig build-exe --object view_asm.o --name view_asm && ./view_asm

// disassemble with objdump
// objdump -d view_asm