## print out a (global variable) string to stdout
#
# To run (from the subx directory):
#   $ subx translate examples/ex6.subx -o examples/ex6
#   $ subx run examples/ex6
#   Hello, world!

== code
# instruction                     effective address                                                   operand     displacement    immediate
# op          subop               mod             rm32          base        index         scale       r32
# 1-3 bytes   3 bits              2 bits          3 bits        3 bits      3 bits        2 bits      2 bits      0/1/2/4 bytes   0/1/2/4 bytes

  # syscall(write, stdout, x, size)
    # fd = 1 (stdout)
  bb/copy-to-EBX  1/imm32
    # initialize x (location to write result to)
  b9/copy-to-ECX  x/imm32
    # initialize size
  8b/copy                         0/mod/indirect  5/rm32/.disp32            .             .           2/r32/EDX   size/disp32     .                 # copy *size to EDX
    # syscall
  b8/copy-to-EAX  4/imm32/write
  cd/syscall  0x80/imm8

  # syscall(exit, EBX)
  b8/copy-to-EAX  1/imm32/exit
  cd/syscall  0x80/imm8

== data
size:  # size of string
  0e 00 00 00  # 14
x:  # string to print
  48 65 6c 6c 6f 2c 20 77 6f 72 6c 64 21 0a       00
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