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+global main  ; expose the main function to the linker
+section .text ; declare this part of the assembly code to belong to the "text" section, i.e. code section
+
+main:  ; define a symbolic label, whose address is remembered by the assembler for later
+	mov rax, 1  ; SYS_write system call
+	mov rdi, 1  ; stdout
+	mov rsi, hello ; pointer to start of bytes to write
+	mov rdx, 14 ; length of byte string to print
+	syscall  ; instruction to trap into the OS
+
+	mov rax, 60  ; SYS_exit system call
+	mov rdi, 0 ; 0 exit code - signals success
+	syscall ; trap into OS
+	; (no return, process exits on the call above)
+	
+section .rodata ; declare this part of the assembly to belong to the "read-only data" section; on Linux, it is illegal/impossible to write to this area.
+hello:
+	db "Hello, world!", 10  ; output raw bytes corresponding to the string into the binary; this can be addressed using the "hello" label
+