section .data                           ; section for initialized data
str:     db 'Hello world!', 0Ah         ; message string with new-line char at the end (10 decimal)
str_len: equ $ - str                    ; calcs length of string (bytes) by subtracting this' address ($ symbol) from the str's start address
 
section .text                           ; this is the code section
global _start                           ; _start is the entry point and needs global scope to be 'seen' by the linker -equivalent to main() in C/C++
_start:                                 ; procedure start
        mov    eax, 4                   ; specify the sys_write function code (from OS vector table)
        mov    ebx, 1                   ; specify file descriptor stdout -in linux, everything's treated as a file, even hardware devices
        mov    ecx, str                 ; move start _address_ of string message to ecx register
        mov    edx, str_len             ; move length of message (in bytes)
        int    80h                      ; tell kernel to perform the system call we just set up - in linux services are requested through the kernel
        mov    eax, 1                   ; specify sys_exit function code (from OS vector table)
        mov    ebx, 0                   ; specify return code for OS (0 = everything's fine)
        int    80h                      ; tell kernel to perform system call

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