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Stdle #65 · memory · 2026-08-10

What does this Assembly snippet output?

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.global _main
.align 2
_main:
stp x29, x30, [sp, #-48]!
mov w8, #1000
mov w9, #2000
str w8, [sp, #16]
str w9, [sp, #20]
ldr w10, [sp, #16]
ldr w11, [sp, #20]
add w10, w10, w11
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], #48
mov w0, #0
ret
.section __TEXT,__cstring
fmt: .asciz "%d\n"
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