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src/MaxValue.asm

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+#PURPOSE: This program finds the maximum number of a set of data items.
+#
+
+#VARIABLES: The registers have the following uses:
+#
+# %edi - Holds the index of the data item being examined
+# %ebx - Largest data item found
+# %eax - Current data item
+#
+# The following memory locations are used:
+#
+# data_items - contains the item data. A 0 is used to terminate the data
+#
+
+.section .data
+data_items:
+    .long 3,67,34,222,45,75,54,34,44,33,22,11,66,0
+
+.section .text
+.globl _start
+
+_start:
+    movl $0, %edi                       # move 0 into the index register
+    movl data_items(,%edi,4), %eax      # load the first byte of data
+    movl %eax, %ebx                     # since this is the first item it
+                                        # is the biggest (duh)
+
+    start_loop:                         # start the loop
+        cmpl $0, %eax                   # check to see if end value 0
+        je loop_exit
+        incl %edi                       # increase index
+        movl data_items(,%edi,4),%eax   # load the next byte of data
+        cmpl %ebx, %eax                 # compare values
+        jle start_loop                  # jump to the loop beginning if the
+                                        # new value isn't bigger
+        movl %eax, %ebx                 # move the value as the largest
+        jmp start_loop                  # jump to loop beginning
+
+    loop_exit:
+        # since %ebx is already the set as the largest value in the data
+        # simply return it in the exit system call since it's already %ebx
+        movl $1, %eax                   # 1 tell the kernel to exit
+        int $0x80