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authorCarlos Maiolino <[email protected]>2025-07-10 22:55:07 +0200
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+# Simple example of functions in ASM, following System V ABI
+# and C calling convention
+
+# Everything is stored in registers, so, we have nothing in data section
+.section .data
+
+.section .text
+
+.globl _start
+
+_start:
+ pushq $3 # Second argument
+ pushq $2 # First argument
+ call power # call function power()
+
+ addq $16, %rsp # Remove arguments from the stack
+ # Could have popped'em, but we don't
+ # need them anymore, so, just move
+ # the stack pointer back
+
+ pushq %rax # Save return value of power()
+
+# Call power () again
+ pushq $2 # Push second argument
+ pushq $5 # Push first argument
+ call power
+
+ addq $16, %rsp # Move stack pointer back
+
+ popq %rbx # Second answer is already in %eax
+ # (returned from power), first answer
+ # was pushed into the stack before, so,
+ # just pop it into %ebx.
+
+ addq %rax, %rbx # Sum up both results (and %ebx is already the
+ # exit()'s return value
+
+# Call exit()
+
+ movq $1, %rax
+ int $0x80
+
+
+
+
+####################
+# #
+# Function power() #
+# #
+####################
+
+# Remember the return address (where the program should keep executing after
+# function return), is also pushed into the stack by the 'call' command.
+
+# Remember, in x86_64 architecture, the Stack grows 'downwards', so, every time
+# we want to look back in the stack, we need to add to the current stack
+# pointer, other than subtract.
+
+# Ex:
+# 56 <- stack 'bottom'
+# 48 pushq
+# 40 pushq
+# 32 <- %rsp (top of the stack)
+
+#Tread symbol 'power' as a function
+.type power,@function
+
+power:
+ pushq %rbp
+ movq %rsp, %rbp
+ movq 16(%rbp), %rcx # Holds the Base number. 16 because:
+ # Current %rsp (pushq %rbp) plus the
+ # implicit return address pushed by
+ # the call command
+
+ movq 24(%rbp), %rbx # Holds the power (pushed first before
+ # function call
+ movq %rcx, %rax
+
+loop:
+ cmpq $1, %rbx
+ je return
+ imul %rcx, %rax # The result is already stored in %rax
+ decq %rbx
+ jmp loop
+
+return:
+ movq %rbp, %rsp
+ popq %rbp
+ ret