root/share/examples/asm/hello/powerpc.s
# $NetBSD: powerpc.s,v 1.1 2011/11/12 01:18:41 jmmv Exp $
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# ------------------------------------------------------------------------

.section ".note.netbsd.ident", "a"
        # This ELF section is used by the kernel to determine, among other
        # things, the system call interface used by the binary.
        #
        # See http://www.netbsd.org/docs/kernel/elf-notes.html for more
        # details.

        .int 7                  # Length of the OS name field below.
        .int 4                  # Length of the description field below.
        .int 0x01               # The type of the note: NetBSD OS Version.
        .ascii  "NetBSD\0\0"    # The OS name, padded to 8 bytes.
        .int 0x23b419a0         # The description value; 5.99.56.

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------

.section ".data"

message:
        .ascii "Hello, world!\n"
        .set MESSAGE_SIZE, . - message

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------

.section ".text"

        .balign 4

        .globl _start
        .type _start, @function
_start:
        # write(STDOUT_FILENO, message, MESSAGE_SIZE)
        li      %r0, 4                  # r0: write(2) syscall number.
        li      %r3, 1                  # r3: first argument.
        addis   %r4, %r0, message@h     # r4: second argument.
        ori     %r4, %r4, message@l
        li      %r5, MESSAGE_SIZE       # r5: third argument.
        sc

        # exit(EXIT_SUCCESS)
        li      %r0, 1                  # r0: exit(2) syscall number.
        li      %r3, 0                  # r3: first argument.
        sc

    .size _start, . - _start