Netwide Assembler is an open source assembly language created in 1996.
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The Netwide Assembler (NASM) is an assembler and disassembler for the Intel x86 architecture. It can be used to write 16-bit, 32-bit (IA-32) and 64-bit (x86-64) programs. NASM is considered to be one of the most popular assemblers for Linux. Read more on Wikipedia...
global _start
section .data
query_string: db "Enter a character: "
query_string_len: equ $ - query_string
out_string: db "You have input: "
out_string_len: equ $ - out_string
section .bss
in_char: resw 4
section .text
_start:
mov rax, 0x2000004 ; put the write-system-call-code into register rax
mov rdi, 1 ; tell kernel to use stdout
mov rsi, query_string ; rsi is where the kernel expects to find the address of the message
mov rdx, query_string_len ; and rdx is where the kernel expects to find the length of the message
syscall
; read in the character
mov rax, 0x2000003 ; read system call
mov rdi, 0 ; stdin
mov rsi, in_char ; address for storage, declared in section .bss
mov rdx, 2 ; get 2 bytes from the kernel's buffer (one for the carriage return)
syscall
; show user the output
mov rax, 0x2000004 ; write system call
mov rdi, 1 ; stdout
mov rsi, out_string
mov rdx, out_string_len
syscall
mov rax, 0x2000004 ; write system call
mov rdi, 1 ; stdout
mov rsi, in_char
mov rdx, 2 ; the second byte is to apply the carriage return expected in the string
syscall
; exit system call
mov rax, 0x2000001 ; exit system call
xor rdi, rdi
syscall| Feature | Supported | Example | Token |
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| Comments | ✓ | ; A comment | |
| Line Comments | ✓ | ; A comment | ; |
| Semantic Indentation | X |