File: echo-linux-amd64.asm
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  22 
  23 
  24 ; To compile this app for linux/amd64, use the commands
  25 ;
  26 ; nasm -f elf64 -o echo-linux-amd64.o echo-linux-amd64.asm
  27 ; ld -n -s echo-linux-amd64.o -o echo
  28 
  29 
  30 ; echo [words...]
  31 ;
  32 ; Emit a line with all the words given as command-line arguments.
  33 
  34 
  35 stdout equ 1
  36 sys_write equ 1
  37 sys_exit equ 60
  38 
  39 section .rodata
  40     empty_line: db 10
  41 
  42 section .text
  43 
  44 global _start
  45 
  46 _start:
  47 
  48 ; rcx = argc
  49 pop rcx
  50 
  51 ; skip argv[0]
  52 pop rbx
  53 ; get argv[1]
  54 pop rbx
  55 
  56 ; find length of byte-slice using the arg-count, replacing each null byte
  57 ; with a space along the way
  58 
  59 ; for (rdx = 0, rcx = rcx - 1; rcx != 0; rcx--, rbx++, rdx++)
  60 mov rdx, 0
  61 dec rcx
  62 args_loop:
  63     ; quit loop when rcx == 0
  64     cmp rcx, 0
  65     je args_loop_done
  66 
  67     ; check current byte
  68     mov al, [rbx]
  69     cmp al, 0
  70     jne not_null
  71         ; if (byte @ rbx == 0) { byte @ rbx = ' '; rcx--; }
  72         mov al, ' '
  73         mov [rbx], al
  74         dec rcx
  75     not_null:
  76 
  77     inc rbx
  78     inc rdx
  79     jmp args_loop
  80 
  81 args_loop_done:
  82 
  83 ; if (rdx == 0) { rbx = &empty_line; rdx = 1; } else byte @ rbx - 1 = '\n';
  84 cmp rdx, 0
  85 je got_no_words
  86     mov al, 10
  87     mov [rbx-1], al
  88     jmp got_words
  89 got_no_words:
  90     mov rbx, empty_line
  91     inc rbx
  92     mov rdx, 1
  93 got_words:
  94 
  95 ; make rbx point to the start of the multi-line byte-slice, which had all
  96 ; nulls replaced by spaces, except for the final null, which was replaced
  97 ; by a line-feed
  98 sub rbx, rdx
  99 
 100 ; write(stdout, message = rbx, message_length = rdx)
 101     mov rax, sys_write
 102     mov rdi, stdout
 103     mov rsi, rbx
 104     syscall
 105 ; exit(0)
 106     mov rax, sys_exit
 107     mov rdi, 0
 108     syscall