hello world but not in 32bit x86 but in amd64 for amd64 platform

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Aug 17), Alain De Vos said:
> The AMD64 platform is currently a  Tier 1 FreeBSD platform,
> but what I currently look for is a 
> "Hello World" assembly program written in 64bit assembly 
> which I can compile and run on my FreeBSD,AMD64 platform
> Sadly enough I was unable to find such a very basic program :-)
> 
> Could you inform me if there exist somewhere such a program
> cfr the 32bit hello world example in
> Chapter 11 
> x86 Assembly Language Programming
> FreeBSD Developers' Handbook

The procedure should be the same no matter what architecture you are
using.  Just use AMD64 assembly...

You can also generate an assembly hello-world program yourself:

$ cat << EOF > test.c
int main(void)
{
  write(1, "Hello world\n", 12);
  return 0;
}
EOF
$ gcc -S test.c
$ cat test.s


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	Dan Nelson
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