Re: [Nasm-users] can't write argv[0] on stdout - solved

[H. P. A. <hp...@zy...>]

On 08/19/2009 10:56 AM, Holger Hanrath wrote:
> 
> from the AMD64 Abi:
> 
> "3. The number of the syscall has to be passed in register %rax."
> 

Correct.  Loading a value into eax clears the upper 32 bits of rax, however.

	-hpa

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