A change-gas

The danger of reading Randall Hyde’s book, The Art of Assembly is that it contains addictive substances. Yesterday, I have decided to

joset@kee $ su -c "emerge -C nasm"

After cleaning up, a tune-up followed

.data
	
msg:
        .ascii  "A small step for me is a big leap for... me!\n"
        len = . - msg
	
.text
	
        .global _start
	
_start:
	
# write string to stdout
	
        movl    $len, %edx
        movl    $msg, %ecx
        movl    $1, %ebx
        movl    $4, %eax
        int     $0x80
	
# exit
	
        movl    $0, %ebx
        movl    $1, %eax
        int     $0x80

Now I have finally made a change-gas. Expecting a lot of maintenance work to follow.