;hello.asm
[SECTION .text]

global _start


_start:

        jmp short ender

        starter:

        xor eax, eax    ;clean up the registers
        xor ebx, ebx
        xor edx, edx
        xor ecx, ecx

        mov al, 4       ;syscall write
        mov bl, 1       ;stdout is 1
        pop ecx         ;get the address of the string from the stack
        mov dl, 5       ;length of the string
        int 0x80

        xor eax, eax
        mov al, 1       ;exit the shellcode
        xor ebx,ebx
        int 0x80

        ender:
        call starter	;put the address of the string on the stack
        db 'hello'

#ifndef _ASM_X86_UNISTD_32_H
#define _ASM_X86_UNISTD_32_H

/*
 * This file contains the system call numbers.
 */

#define __NR_restart_syscall      0
#define __NR_exit                 1
#define __NR_fork                 2
#define __NR_read                 3
#define __NR_write                4
#define __NR_open                 5
#define __NR_close                6
#define __NR_waitpid              7
#define __NR_creat                8
..................

$strace ./hello

execve("./hello", ["./hello"], [/* 40 vars */]) = 0
write(1, "hello", 5hello)                    = 5
_exit(0)                                = ?