## 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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