SPO600 64-bit Assembly Language Lab

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Purpose of this Lab
In this lab, you will experiment with assembler on the x86_64 and aarch64 platforms.

Ireland
Perform this lab on ireland.proximity.on.ca.)

Lab 3

Ireland - Configuration

The host Ireland (ireland.proximity.on.ca) has been set up so that you can use it normally as an x86_64 host, or use an emulation environment to build and run aarch64 binaries.

The directory ~/arm64/spo600/examples<code>, which is also accessible as <code>~/spo600-examples, contains these files:

── hello
   ├── assembler                 # 'hello world' example programs
   │   ├── aarch64               # aarch64 assembler version
   │   │   ├── hello.s
   │   │   └── Makefile
   │   └── x86_64                # x86_64 assembler versions
   │       ├── hello-gas.s       # 64-bit instructions for assembley with the gnu assembler (called 'gas', /usr/bin/as)
   │       ├── hello-nasm.s      # 32-bit instructions for assembley with the nasm assembler (/usr/bin/nasm)
   │       └── Makefile
   └── c
       ├── hello2.c              # C version using the write() syscall wrapper
       ├── hello.c               # C version using printf()
       └── Makefile

Throughout this lab, take advantage of make whenever possible.

Lab Tasks

1. Build the C version of