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Stdle #45 · addressing · 2026-07-21

What does this Assembly snippet output?

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.global _main
.align 2
_main:
stp x29, x30, [sp, #-32]!
adrp x8, arr@PAGE
add x8, x8, arr@PAGEOFF
mov x9, #3
ldr w10, [x8, x9, lsl #2]
sub sp, sp, #16
str x10, [sp]
adrp x0, fmt@PAGE
add x0, x0, fmt@PAGEOFF
bl _printf
add sp, sp, #16
ldp x29, x30, [sp], #32
mov w0, #0
ret
.section __DATA,__data
.align 2
arr: .long 10, 20, 30, 40, 50
.section __TEXT,__cstring
fmt: .asciz "%d\n"
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