segment .text ;code segment global_start ;must be declared for linker _start: ;tell linker entry point mov edx,len ;message length mov ecx,msg ;message to write mov ebx,1 ;file descriptor (stdout) mov eax,4 ;system call number (sys_write) int 0x80 ;call kernel mov eax,1 ;system call number (sys_exit) int 0x80 ;call kernel segment .data ;data segment msg db 'Hello, world!',0xa ;our dear string len equ $ - msg ;length of our dear string ;From https://www.tutorialspoint.com/assembly_programming/assembly_memory_segments.htm