使用 db 在程序集 NASM 中声明一个字符串

Question

我正在按照教程编写一个用汇编语言编写的 hello world 引导加载程序，并且我正在将 NASM 汇编程序用于 x-86 机器。这是我正在使用的代码：

[BITS 16]   ;Tells the assembler that its a 16 bit code
[ORG 0x7C00]    ;Origin, tell the assembler that where the code will
            ;be in memory after it is been loaded

MOV SI, HelloString ;Store string pointer to SI
CALL PrintString    ;Call print string procedure
JMP $       ;Infinite loop, hang it here.


PrintCharacter: ;Procedure to print character on screen
;Assume that ASCII value is in register AL
MOV AH, 0x0E    ;Tell BIOS that we need to print one charater on screen.
MOV BH, 0x00    ;Page no.
MOV BL, 0x07    ;Text attribute 0x07 is lightgrey font on black background

INT 0x10    ;Call video interrupt
RET     ;Return to calling procedure



PrintString:    ;Procedure to print string on screen
;Assume that string starting pointer is in register SI

next_character: ;Lable to fetch next character from string
MOV AL, [SI]    ;Get a byte from string and store in AL register
INC SI      ;Increment SI pointer
OR AL, AL   ;Check if value in AL is zero (end of string)
JZ exit_function ;If end then return
CALL PrintCharacter ;Else print the character which is in AL register
JMP next_character  ;Fetch next character from string
exit_function:  ;End label
RET     ;Return from procedure


;Data
HelloString db 'Hello World', 0 ;HelloWorld string ending with 0

TIMES 510 - ($ - $$) db 0   ;Fill the rest of sector with 0
DW 0xAA55           ;Add boot signature at the end of bootloader

我很难理解如何使用 db 命令将完整的“Hello World”字符串放入一个字节中。据我了解，db 代表 define byte 并将所述字节直接放在可执行文件中，但“Hello World”肯定大于一个字节。我在这里错过了什么？

Answer 1

伪指令db、dw、dd和朋友can define multiple items

db 34h             ;Define byte 34h
db 34h, 12h        ;Define bytes 34h and 12h (i.e. word 1234h)

它们也接受字符常量

db 'H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', 0

但是这种语法对于字符串来说很笨拙，所以接下来的逻辑步骤是给出明确的支持

db "Hello", 0         ;Equivalent of the above

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附：一般来说prefer the user-level directives，虽然对于[BITS]和[ORG]是无关紧要的。