printf (' hello world! ');

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Stuart Foster wrote:

>What is the Linux equivalent of assembly ?

section .text
    global _start            ;must be declared for linker

msg    db    'Hello, world!',0xa    ;our dear string
len    equ    $ - msg            ;length of our dear string

_start:                    ;tell linker where entry point is
    mov    edx,len            ;message length
    mov    ecx,msg            ;message to write
    mov    ebx,1            ;file descriptor (stdout)
    mov    eax,4            ;system call number (sys_write)
    int    0x80            ;call kernel

    mov    eax,1            ;system call number (sys_exit)
    int    0x80            ;call kernel

nasm -f elf hello.asm
ld -s -o hello hello.o


The above program is from http://linuxassembly.org/intro.html.

Harvey