_start: ;
 push %edx ;  pop %edx ;  /* magic number RZ */
 movl $5 , %eax ;  /* only a testing word, doesn't put 5 on the stack */
 ret ;  /* only returns it as the errorlevel, available as $? in bash */
 /* the following is for future use, and its format may change */
word: ; .long .-_start ;  /* allows us to find start of word */
1: ; .byte 2f-1b-1 ;
 .ascii "FIVE" ;
2: ; .byte 2b-1b-1 ;
 push %eax ; pop %eax ;  /* end marker */
 /* ld will round up this segment to a longword boundary,
    with random content, so let's do it ourselves more
    deterministically */
 .skip 4-.&3 , 0x90 ;  /* 0x90 is NOP on x86 architecture */