CSC231 Homework Solutions 2017

--D. Thiebaut (talk) 17:57, 22 April 2017 (EDT)

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Problem 1

;;; mystery.asm 
;;; D. Thiebaut  
;;;                
;;; To assemble, link, and run:  
;;;     nasm -f elf  mystery.asm  
;;;     ld -melf_i386 -o mystery mystery.o 
;;;     ./mystery        
;;;      

                section .data
Hello           db      "Hello there!", 10, 10
HelloLen        equ     $-Hello
	
                section .text
                global  _start
_start:

;;; print Hello and a space after it
	
                mov     eax, 4          ; write    
                mov     ebx, 1          ; stdout  
                mov     ecx, Hello      ; address of message to print    
                mov     edx, 6          ; print only 6 chars
                int     0x80

;;; print ! and two line feed chars

                mov     eax, 4          ; write    
                mov     ebx, 1          ; stdout  
                mov     ecx, Hello+11   ; address of ! char
                mov     edx, 3          ; print only 3 chars
                int     0x80

;;; exit                                                                                                                                    
                mov     ebx, 0
                mov     eax, 1
                int     0x80