I never wrote ASM for ARM, but as far as I see there is no loop and no 
program end.
What shall it do after the move? I assume it runs arbitrary code after 
the move.

thanks Klaus.

So I should rephrase my question to: how do I end my ASM program?
I expected the .end directive told the assembler to do so, but perhaps 
not.

regards

Gijs

thanks for your response Chillito.

I do not cross compile, I compile on a Debian system running on ARM 
processor and I run the program from the OS.

Yes I am sure the directives are fine, otherwise the assembler (GAS) 
would have complained.

I have tried to end the program with
SWI 0x11
But that gives segmentation fault when I run it.

I'm not sure how to explain "when I run it I get" further. The compiled 
program is called "mini" and when I type
# ./mini
The OS responds with:
Illegal instruction

regards

Since you have defined a function _start i assume it will be called by 
some startup code as a function.
So I guess you miss a ret instruction to return to the caller (which I 
hope terminates the program).

Perhaps you should search for docu or a working example?

Guenther,

Although I am grateful for your now sensible response, I find it unfair 
that you accuse me of not making an effort. I have been spending the 
whole day on this problem and did numerous searches on the web for 
simple ARM programs, without succes.

The link you gave me is not realy a solution in assembler, it is just 
some code EMBEDED in C. What I need (for educational purpose) is a 
solution in pure assembler, which I can make with "as" and "ld".

I assure you that Google cannot find such an example or tutorial, hence 
my question on this forum.

And also the 'ret' instruction is not part of the ARM instruction set.

I think I realy need an expereinced ARM programmer to enlighten me.

regards

Gijs

> I assure you that Google cannot find such an example or tutorial, hence
> my question on this forum.

Now we KNOW you are a troll:

http://blogs.arm.com/software-enablement/139-hello-world-in-assembly/

This was the first Link that Google gave me in my first try:
http://www.google.com/search?q=arm+asm+Hello+World

You might want to learn how to google first.

You are not only rude Jim, but also too stupid to understand my previous 
post about EMBEDDED C code. Your link is just an other example of 
embedding ASM in C and that is not what I am after (also that example 
does not compile properly).

Maybe you better first learn to read before calling people names, now 
you look a bit silly.

I finally solved this problem, hurray!

After more digging I found and downloaded a package called FASMARM.
In one of the examples there it showed a way of ending a program 
properly with:

1

SWI 0x900001

So apparently you need 90 in the high order byte to call a system 
service for ARM processor.
Now it works, also using GAS (GCC assembler).
Thanks all.