Hello all,

I am trying to write a program that prints out a concatenated string.

Without the newline it concatenates as expected, but my main issue is the fact that it prints out both variables instead of just one of them.

I wrote the program to print out only one of the variables but for some reason it seems to take in both variables (as arguments?) and print them out onto the screen.

Also it seems to echo the second variable after printing out both variables on one line.

This is the code: multistring.asm

│ File: multistring.asm
───────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
1 │ format ELF64 executable 3
2 │
3 │ SYS_EXIT equ 60
4 │ EXIT_SUCCESS equ 0
5 │ WRITE_OUTPUT equ 1
6 │ STANDARD_OUTPUT equ 1
7 │ NL equ 0xA
8 │
9 │ segment readable executable
10 │
11 │ entry $
12 │
13 │
14 │ ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
15 │ ;; OUTPUT FIRST MESSAGE ;;
16 │ ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
17 │
18 │ mov rdx, msg1_len
19 │ lea rsi, [msg1]
20 │ mov rdi, STANDARD_OUTPUT
21 │ mov rax, WRITE_OUTPUT
22 │ syscall
23 │
24 │ ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
25 │ ;; OUTPUT SECOND MESSAGE ;;
26 │ ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
27 │
28 │ ; mov rdx, msg2_len
29 │ ; lea rsi, [msg2]
30 │ ; mov rdi, STANDARD_OUTPUT
31 │ ; mov rax, WRITE_OUTPUT
32 │ ; syscall
33 │ ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
34 │ ;; EXIT THE PROGRAM ;;
35 │ ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
36 │
37 │
38 │ mov rax, SYS_EXIT
39 │ mov rdi, EXIT_SUCCESS
40 │ syscall
41 │
42 │
43 │ ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
44 │ ;; DECLARE VARIABLES ;;
45 │ ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
46 │
47 │ msg1 db NL,NL,"Hello, "
48 │ msg2 db "there!",NL,NL
49 │
50 │ msg1_len = $-msg1
51 │ msg2_len = $-msg2


END OF CODE

I appreciate any and all help. I hope all of you have a great day!

The length of msg_1 is not correct. Something like this might help.

I tried it and it worked. Thanks revolution!

I am wondering about how string interpolation or how placeholders work (like %d in C for example), because I am trying to understand how printf works.

Is it all concatenation of strings? Does the assembler have to convert the numbers into strings?

Thanks again! I hope you have a great day!

The strings are just laid in memory joined together. If you have a hex dump program you can examine the file to see the result.

That makes sense.

Thanks again revolution!