Re: Help to run assembly code

[Stepan Ipatov <st.ipatov%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi,

You don't need to add the note section manually; you can simply link the 
object file with /usr/lib/sysident.o

Something like this:

ld -static -o hello /usr/lib/sysident.o hello.o

On 3/18/2026 1:51 PM, Martin Husemann wrote:

> No idea how to do that with NASM, but for the as(1) that comes with
> the base system you can copy the code from src/lib/csu/common/sysident.S.
>
> Main part is:
>
>          .section ".note.netbsd.ident", "a"
>          .p2align 2
>
>          .long   ELF_NOTE_NETBSD_NAMESZ
>          .long   ELF_NOTE_NETBSD_DESCSZ
>          .long   ELF_NOTE_TYPE_NETBSD_TAG
>          .ascii  "NetBSD\0\0"    /* ELF_NOTE_NETBSD_NAME */
>          .long   __NetBSD_Version__
>
> Compare the file(1) output for your binary with e.g.
>
> 	file /bin/ls
>
> Martin