.386
    .model flat, c
    .stack 100h
printf  PROTO arg1:Ptr Byte, printlist:VARARG
    .data
msg1fmt byte "%s%d", 0Ah, 0 ;string formatting
msg1    byte "The answer is: ", 0
num1    sdword ? ;create variables called num 1
num2    sdword ? ;create variable num 2
        .code
main    proc
        mov num1, 5 ;mov takes 2 operands (take 5, move to first operand from ___)
        mov eax, num1 ;take the data from num1 into a register (we will mostly use eax)
        mov num2, eax ;move data from register into num2
        INVOKE printf, ADDR msglfmt, ADDR msgl, num2 ;will call our printf function with msg1fmt
        ret ;ret or return
main    endp ;tell the system our procedure is ending
        end ;tell the program it's ending
;first column names, second column data type
;3rd column = ?
; strings are null terminated with a 0
;assembly cannot directly move data from variable to variable.
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