cis-lclient05:~/2012/system>more pargs.s
.section .data
// Command table to store at most
//  10 command line arguments
   cmd_tbl:
      .rept 10
         .long 0
      .endr
.section .text
   .globl _start
   _start:
// Set up the stack frame
      movl  %esp, %ebp
// Top of stack contains the
//  number of command line arguments.
// The default value is 1
      movl  (%ebp), %ecx
// Exit if arguments are more than 10
      cmpl  $10, %ecx
      jg    _exit
   
      movl  $1, %esi
      movl  $0, %edi
// Store the command line arguments
//  in the command table
   store_loop:
      movl  (%ebp, %esi, 4), %eax
      movl  %eax, cmd_tbl( , %edi, 4)
      incl  %esi
      incl  %edi
      loop  store_loop
      movl  %edi, %ecx
      movl  $0, %esi
   print_loop:
// Make some local space
      subl  $4, %esp
// puts functions corrupts ecx
      movl  %ecx, -4(%ebp)
      movl  cmd_tbl( , %esi, 4), %eax
      pushl %eax
      call  puts
      addl  $4, %esp
      movl  -4(%ebp), %ecx
      incl  %esi
      loop  print_loop
      jmp   _exit
   _exit:
      movl  $1, %eax
      movl  $0, %ebx
      int   $0x80

cis-lclient05:~/2012/system>as -o pargs.o pargs.s
cis-lclient05:~/2012/system>ld --dynamic-linker /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -lc -o pargs pargs.o
cis-lclient05:~/2012/system>pargs Now is the time
pargs
Now
is
the
time
cis-lclient05:~/2012/system>
cis-lclient05:~/2012/system>echo $?
0
cis-lclient05:~/2012/system>