How to print a number in ARM assembly?

Question

I am trying to print a number that I have stored. I\'m not sure if I am close or way off. Any help would be appreciated though. Here is my code:

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Answer 1

The syscall write takes on the second argument (r1) as a pointer to the string you want to print. You are passing it a pointer to an integer, which is why it's not printing anything, because there are no ASCII characters on the memory region you are passing to it.

Below you'll find a "Hello World" program using the syscall write.

.text
.global main
main:
        push {r7, lr}

        mov r0, #1
        ldr r1, =string
        mov r2, #12
        mov r7, #4
        svc #0

        pop {r7, pc}

.data
string: .asciz "Hello World\n"

If you want to print a number you can use the printf function from the C library. Like this:

.text
.global main
.extern printf
main:
        push {ip, lr}

        ldr r0, =string
        mov r1, #1024
        bl printf

        pop {ip, pc}

.data
string: .asciz "The number is: %d\n"

Finally, if you want to print the number with the syscall write you can also implement a itoa function (one that converts an integer to a string).