88 Byte's !!! Challenge 2013-Aug-10

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DOS386

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DOS386 10 Aug 2013, 08:24

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; FASM challenge (again ) ... What is this code supposed to do ???

; (CL) 2013-Aug-10

; 88 Byte's in use32 (if "in0" "in1" "out0" evaluate into [EBP+SINT8]
; and 3 PUSH'es and 3 POPE'es are commented out) , MD5 =
; 0E26'E101'D10A'87A5'C948'FCF8'20A3'9320 (if the EBP stuff kept as-is)

format binary as "BIN" ; LADEN
use32 ; abuse64
org $1234'FEDC ; YES we CAN (be PIC ...)

virtual at (ebp+4)
  in0:  dd ?
  in1:  dd ?
  out0: dd ?
end virtual

define pope pop

        ; push   ebx
        ; push   esi
        ; push   edi

        call   msdog
        db     129,10,133,10,7,26,132,2,26,4
 msdog: pope   edx

        mov    esi, [in0]
        mov    ecx, [in1]
        xor    edi, edi       ; MOVNTQ EDI, 0

 mscat: lodsb
        push   ecx
        push   edx

        mov    cl, 31
        mov    ah, 32
        cmp    al, ah
        jb     short lzhen
        cmp    al, 126
        ja     short lzhen
        mov    cl, 0
        jmp    short lzcat    ; CL and AH are critical
        ; ---------------

 mshen: test   ch, ch         ; CMPNTQ CH, 0
        jne    short lzdog
        mov    bl, 1
 lzdog: add    cl, bl
        inc    edx

 lzcat: mov    bh, ah
        mov    bl, [edx]      ; BOOM !!!
        mov    ch, bl
        and    ch, 128
        and    bl, 127        ; Nevertheless ...
        add    ah, bl
        cmp    al, ah
        jae    short mshen
        test   ch, ch         ; CMPNTQ CH, 0
        je     short lzhen
        add    cl, al         ; ADD Al (Al-Quaeda) to Cl (Chlorum)
        sub    cl, bh
 lzhen: bts    edi, ecx       ; 3 Byte's

        pope   edx
        pope   ecx
        loop   mscat          ; LODSB

        mov    [out0], edi

        ; pope   edi
        ; pope   esi
        ; pope   ebx

At the occasion of brewing my fascinating app that I'll release when it's ready, I encountered this interesting function.

2. find out what useful it is supposed to do
3. guess what the app could be about
4. optimize it
5. port it to C+++ , compile , measure bloat and compare with my FASM version

PS:

http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=13749
http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=11044
http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=10874
http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=9016
http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=2164

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Bug Nr.: 12345

Title: Hello World program compiles to 100 KB !!!

Status: Closed: NOT a Bug

10 Aug 2013, 08:24

bitRAKE

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bitRAKE 10 Aug 2013, 23:56

2) Corral the animals?

3) Wire mesh calibration?

4a) Instead of masking out the top bit of CH, the jCC can be changed to use the sign bit of the flag register.

5) No thank you.

Wink

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10 Aug 2013, 23:56

bitRAKE

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bitRAKE 11 Aug 2013, 20:22

2) I don't quite have a clue, yet...

4b) BTS only uses the bits required for the register size. MOV CL,31 can be changed to any number which has the least five bits set. So, if we choose MOV CL,-1 then further along MOV CL,0 can be changed to INC ECX -- saving a byte.

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11 Aug 2013, 20:22

bitRAKE

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bitRAKE 11 Aug 2013, 20:50

4c) If the role of CH and AH are swapped, then SAHF can be used to test for high bit -- that'll save a couple bytes - replacing both TEST CH,CH. (The condition changes in (4a) will remain unchanged.) This doesn't conflict with (4b) because CMP AL,32 is the same number of bytes as CMP AL,CH; and MOV CH,32 can follow INC ECX.

Looks like six bytes so far...

11 Aug 2013, 20:50

DOS386

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DOS386 19 Aug 2013, 11:58

Interesting ... your optimizations could be valid ... but 2) is still unresolved Wink

19 Aug 2013, 11:58

quirck

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Posts: 5

quirck 19 Aug 2013, 16:23

My wild guess... Looks like it checks whether certain symbols are present in the string pointed to by [in0] of length [in1]. As a result, in [out0]:
bit 0 is set whenever the string contains a space;
bit 1 is for symbols in range '!' .. '*';
bit 2 is for '+';
bit 3 is for ',';
bit 4 is for '-';
bit 5 is for '.';
bit 6 is for '/';
bit 7 is for digits;
bit 8 is for symbols in range ':'..'@';
bit 9 is for uppercase letters;
bit 10 indicates presence of '[';
bit 11 is for '\';
bit 12 is for ']';
bit 13 is for '^';
bit 14 is for '_' or '`';
bit 15 is for lowercase letters;
bit 16 is for symbols in range '{'..'~';
bits 17-30 are zero;
bit 31 indicates that the string contains symbols outside the range ' '..'~'

19 Aug 2013, 16:23

DOS386

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Posts: 1903

DOS386 19 Aug 2013, 16:31

quirck wrote:

My wild guess... Looks like it checks whether certain symbols are present in the string

Welcome to the FASM forum Smile

and congratulations ... you are the WINNER of this challenge Smile

PS: "3. guess what the app could be about" is still unresolved

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Bug Nr.: 12345

Title: Hello World program compiles to 100 KB !!!

Status: Closed: NOT a Bug

19 Aug 2013, 16:31

bitshifter

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Posts: 796
Location: Massachusetts, USA

bitshifter 08 Sep 2013, 19:14

Quote:

3. guess what the app could be about

Is it for a data compression/decompression utility?

08 Sep 2013, 19:14

DOS386

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Posts: 1903

DOS386 10 Sep 2013, 08:58

> Is it for a data compression/decompression

no

10 Sep 2013, 08:58

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