section .data
    str1 db "DEAD", 0
    str2 db "BEEF", 0
    result db 9 dup(0) ; Reserve space for the concatenated string

section .text
global main

main:
    ; Copy the first string "DEAD" into result
    mov esi, str1
    mov edi, result
    call copy_string

    ; Append the second string "BEEF" to result
    mov esi, str2
    call append_string

    ; Exit the program
    mov eax, 0x4C ; Exit syscall number
    xor ebx, ebx  ; Return code 0
    int 0x80      ; Call syscall

copy_string:
    ; Copy a null-terminated string from esi to edi
    .copy_loop:
        mov al, [esi] ; Load a character from source
        test al, al   ; Check if it's null terminator
        jz .copy_done  ; If null terminator, we are done
        mov [edi], al ; Copy character to destination
        inc esi        ; Move to the next character in source
        inc edi        ; Move to the next character in destination
        jmp .copy_loop ; Repeat the loop

    .copy_done:
        ret

append_string:
    ; Append a null-terminated string from esi to the end of edi
    .append_loop:
        mov al, [esi] ; Load a character from source
        test al, al   ; Check if it's null terminator
        jz .append_done ; If null terminator, we are done
        mov [edi], al ; Copy character to destination
        inc esi        ; Move to the next character in source
        inc edi        ; Move to the next character in destination
        jmp .append_loop ; Repeat the loop

    .append_done:
        ret
 

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About Assembly

Assembly language(asm) is a low-level programming language, where the language instructions will be more similar to machine code instructions.

Every assembler may have it's own assembly language designed for a specific computers or an operating system.

Assembly language requires less execution time and memory. It is more helful for direct hardware manipulation, real-time critical applications. It is used in device drivers, low-level embedded systems etc.

Syntax help

Assembly language usually consists of three sections,

  1. Data section

    To initialize variables and constants, buffer size these values doesn't change at runtime.

  2. bss section

    To declare variables

  3. text section

    _start specifies the starting of this section where the actually code is written.

Variables

There are various define directives to allocate space for variables for both initialized and uninitialized data.

1. To allocate storage space to Initialized data

Syntax

variable-name    define-directive    initial-value 
Define DirectiveDescriptionAllocated Space
DBDefine Byte1 byte
DWDefine Word2 bytes
DDDefine Doubleword4 bytes
DQDefine Quadword8 bytes
DTDefine Ten Bytes10 bytes

2. To allocate storage space to un-initialized data

Define DirectiveDescription
RESBReserve a Byte
RESWReserve a Word
RESDReserve a Doubleword
RESQReserve a Quadword
RESTReserve a Ten Bytes

Constants

Constants can be defined using

1. equ

  • To define numeric constants
CONSTANT_NAME EQU regular-exp or value

2. %assign

  • To define numeric constants.
%assign constant_name value

3. %define

  • To define numeric or string constants.
%define constant_name value

Loops

Loops are used to iterate a set of statements for a specific number of times.

mov ECX,n
L1:
;<loop body>
loop L1

where n specifies the no of times loops should iterate.

Procedures

Procedure is a sub-routine which contains set of statements. Usually procedures are written when multiple calls are required to same set of statements which increases re-usuability and modularity.

procedure_name:
   ;procedure body
   ret