.lcomm  var1 8

.global _start
_start:

   # load the address of "var1" into register %eax
   movl $3,%eax  # eax = 3
   movw $0xabcd,var1(,%eax,2) # ((short int*)var1)[eax] = 0xcd
   
   movl $0, %ebx
   movl $1, %eax
   int  $0x80