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Stdle #84 · floats · 2026-08-29

What does this Assembly snippet output?

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.global _main
.align 2
_main:
stp x29, x30, [sp, #-32]!
adrp x0, val@PAGE
add x0, x0, val@PAGEOFF
ldr d0, [x0]
fsqrt d0, d0
sub sp, sp, #16
str d0, [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 3
val: .double 25.0
.section __TEXT,__cstring
fmt: .asciz "%g\n"
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