>  JV> You forgot the best part- Nasm.
> 
> regarding that, i forgot to say, thanks for the nice tutorial.
The Hello.asm?  The nice part is being able to link up with libc, any book
on ANSI C will be useful. The exact form of assembly can be discovered by
forcing gcc to output assembly source from small C examples and studying it.  
Of course all queries as to 'why' will be discarded..  ;-)
 
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