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;; File       :  LinuxT
;; Description: 
;;               a linux program that returns with an exit code of 0
;;               similar to the 'true' program available on unix.
;;
;; Purpose    :  written to test the GoAsm assembler.
;; 
;; Author     :  V.Krishnakumar <birbal77@indiatimes.com>
;;
;; Build notes: 
;;     GoAsm is a Win32 assembler and the output it
;;     generates is PE/COFF. In order to build and
;;     execute this program I did this:
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;;     1. goasm LinuxT
;;     2. objcopy -O elf32-i386 LinuxT.obj LinuxT.o
;;     3. ld -o LinuxT LinuxT.o
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;;     the first produces a PE/COFF file
;;     the second converts a PE/COFF file to ELF32 object file
;;     and the third command uses the system linker to link the
;;     object file to produce a standard linux executable.
;;
;; More info  :
;;     http://www.linuxassembly.org is the information clearinghouse
;;     for all things related to linux (and unix) assembly language.
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;; the program simply calls exit to with the return code of 0.

CODE SECTION 

; the linux linker expects to find the symbol _start
; as the standard entry point.

_start:

; the internal ordinal for exit function is 1
  xor eax,eax
  inc eax

; the first argument (ie, the return code) should be in ebx
  xor ebx,ebx

; call the kernel.
  int 0x80