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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
+
+####################
+#		   #
+# 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)
+
+.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
+	decq %rbx
+	jmp loop
+
+return:
+	movq %rbp, %rsp
+	popq %rbp
+	ret