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Stdle #43 · stack · 2026-07-19

What does this Assembly snippet output?

A past puzzle — fully playable. 4 attempts, hints on wrong guesses.

.global _main
.align 2
_main:
stp x29, x30, [sp, #-48]!
mov x29, sp
mov w8, #64
str w8, [x29, #32]
ldr w9, [x29, #32]
mul w9, w9, w9
sub sp, sp, #16
str x9, [sp]
adrp x0, fmt@PAGE
add x0, x0, fmt@PAGEOFF
bl _printf
add sp, sp, #16
ldp x29, x30, [sp], #48
mov w0, #0
ret
.section __TEXT,__cstring
fmt: .asciz "%d\n"
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