Simple assembly question
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hey, I am trying to build an assembly funtion that passes an address of an int array declared to a c functoin. Some times I need to send off the base address, but other times I might want to send off the address of another cell. The c code then loops through portions of the array. As I am a rank amateur in asm, I am having a difficult time.
something like this
mov edi, dword ptr[ edi + 16 ]
indexes into the array, correct? now what if I want the memory address of that cell so that the function it gets passed to could, for example, loop through the next 6 cells and sum or something.
in VC++, you can use C variables in your assembler something like this. I''m not sure how this works in other compilers.
#define SOME_SIZE 16
#define SOME_SIZE 16
void asmfunction(int *pointer){ __asm { // notice using the C variable "pointer" in asm mov esi, pointer // read from the pointer mov eax, dword ptr[esi] // read from the next cell mov eax, dword ptr[esi+4] // or in a loop xor ecx, ecxL0: mov dword ptr[esi+ecx*4], ecx inc ecx cmp ecx, SOME_SIZE jl L0 }}int main(){ int array[SOME_SIZE]; asmfunction(array); return 0;}
You''re on the right track. If you don''t know already EAX is used for return values, so whatever is in EAX when your function returns is what the return value is.
Also, remember when doing things like [edi + 16] that 16 is bytes from the start, not items in array. If it is a char array, edi+16 will reference the 16th item. If its a short array it will reference the 8th item, and if its an int array it references the 4th item.
Hope that was of some help
Also, remember when doing things like [edi + 16] that 16 is bytes from the start, not items in array. If it is a char array, edi+16 will reference the 16th item. If its a short array it will reference the 8th item, and if its an int array it references the 4th item.
Hope that was of some help
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thanks for the input guys, but i figured it out. All i had to do for what I was looking to do was
add edi 16
now I feel silly for how easy that was.
add edi 16
now I feel silly for how easy that was.
If you want a more general solution than add, use
lea edi, dword ptr[edi+16]
This way, you can also do something like
lea edi, dword ptr[edi+4*ecx+16]
in a single clock cycle.
lea will load the address of its operand into a register.
lea edi, dword ptr[edi+16]
This way, you can also do something like
lea edi, dword ptr[edi+4*ecx+16]
in a single clock cycle.
lea will load the address of its operand into a register.
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