; test source file for assembling to binary files ; build with: ; nasm -f bin -o bintest.com bintest.asm ; When run (as a DOS .COM file), this program should print ; hello, world ; on two successive lines, then exit cleanly. ; This file should test the following: ; [1] Define a text-section symbol ; [2] Define a data-section symbol ; [3] Define a BSS-section symbol ; [4] Define a NASM local label ; [5] Reference a NASM local label ; [6] Reference a text-section symbol in the text section ; [7] Reference a data-section symbol in the text section ; [8] Reference a BSS-section symbol in the text section ; [9] Reference a text-section symbol in the data section ; [10] Reference a data-section symbol in the data section ; [11] Reference a BSS-section symbol in the data section BITS 16 ORG 0x100 SECTION .text jmp start ; [6] endX mov ax,0x4c00 ; [1] int 0x21 start mov byte [bss_sym],',' ; [1] [8] mov bx,[bssptr] ; [7] mov al,[bx] mov bx,[dataptr] ; [7] mov [bx],al mov cx,2 .loop mov dx,datasym ; [1] [4] [7] mov ah,9 push cx int 0x21 pop cx loop .loop ; [5] [6] mov bx,[textptr] ; [7] jmp bx SECTION .data datasym db 'hello world', 13, 10, '$' ; [2] bssptr dw bss_sym ; [2] [11] dataptr dw datasym+5 ; [2] [10] textptr dw endX ; [2] [9] SECTION .bss bss_sym resb 1 ; [3]