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Coty



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Coty 20 Jan 2012, 21:49
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coty@coty-laptop:~/iPod$ ./fasm hello.asm
flat assembler for ARM version 1.69.35 (16384 kilobytes memory)
error: out of memory.
coty@coty-laptop:~/iPod$


wtf? The code is only 1075 bytes! And has doesn't generate padding or anything Shocked

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LocoDelAssembly 20 Jan 2012, 21:58
Can you show the code? You could try the -m parameter to give fasmarm more memory, but 16 MB should really be enough if the code really doesn't have DUPs or any other thing that can increase the memory requirements considerably.
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Coty 20 Jan 2012, 22:04
Yeah
Code:
;=========================================================;
; Hello world example for Darwin 11 ARM.
;=========================================================;
   format ELF executable
       entry start

     segment readable executable
start:
        mov     r12, 4                 ; r12 = write text
        ldr      r1, [_hello]          ; Our message
        mov      r0, 1                 ; stdout
        mov      r2, length            ; msg length
        swi     0x80                   ; Just do it
        ;------------------------------;
        ; Syscall exit.                ;
        ;------------------------------;
        mov     r12, 1                 ; Exit
        mov      r0, 0                 ; return status 0
        swi     0x80                   ; astalavista baby
;==========================================================;
; Data area.                                               ;
;==========================================================;
_hello  rw msg
msg:    db "Hello Darwin world from assembly!",0
length  = $ - msg

        segment writeable
    

I also tried to allocate 128m and that failed (I though "if this don't do it, then nothing will!")

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LocoDelAssembly
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LocoDelAssembly 20 Jan 2012, 22:12
Code:
_hello  rw msg    
Maybe you should use dw here?
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Coty 20 Jan 2012, 22:15
DO'H! Interesting that would through an out of memory error though...

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LocoDelAssembly 20 Jan 2012, 22:29
Well, your code will take as much memory as the msg address value is, so it is not that surprising (although it is interesting how a single character can impact so much in memory consumption Laughing)
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revolution 24 Jan 2012, 12:26
Also note that the old ARM11 chip does not support all the latest instruction set additions.

Always remember to set your "processor" and "coprocessor" values to avoid disappointment with code crashing when trying to execute unsupported instructions.
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revolution 24 Jan 2012, 23:57
LocoDelAssembly wrote:
Well, your code will take as much memory as the msg address value is ...
For ELF format the default image base is 0x8048000 (about 128MB). And each pass the address of msg grows by the same amount. Even if you had enough memory, and used 64-bit addressing, you would still eventually run out of passes since the code is unresolvable.
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Coty 25 Jan 2012, 16:56
revolution wrote:
Also note that the old ARM11 chip does not support all the latest instruction set additions.

Always remember to set your "processor" and "coprocessor" values to avoid disappointment with code crashing when trying to execute unsupported instructions.

Oh yeah! I forgot about that, maybe that was my problem of why it wouldn't run, I'll have to try that when I get the chance...

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Dex4u 25 Jan 2012, 20:08
Coty, is your device jailbreak and what device is it ?.
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Coty 15 Mar 2012, 20:02
Oh sorry, missed your reply somehow dex.

It is an ipod touch 4g, with iOS 5.0, yes it's jail broken. I have written this on how one may dev for it with linux: http://my.opera.com/coty0010/blog/2012/01/20/writing-an-app-for-ios-5-with-linux

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Dex4u 16 Mar 2012, 00:44
Coty wrote:
Oh sorry, missed your reply somehow dex.

It is an ipod touch 4g, with iOS 5.0, yes it's jail broken. I have written this on how one may dev for it with linux: http://my.opera.com/coty0010/blog/2012/01/20/writing-an-app-for-ios-5-with-linux

Cool thanks, i have one of those, i will give it a try.
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Tonymac32 02 Jun 2012, 04:55
Revolution: I just ran into Coty's issue while browsing the forums, your post in the thread about loading large immediate values shows the "rw" instead of "dw" usage. Just thought I'd mention it before someone else stumbles over it. Thanks for all the support you're giving the community.
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revolution 02 Jun 2012, 04:58
Tonymac32 wrote:
Revolution: I just ran into Coty's issue while browsing the forums, your post in the thread about loading large immediate values shows the "rw" instead of "dw" usage. Just thought I'd mention it before someone else stumbles over it. Thanks for all the support you're giving the community.
Good find. I have fixed it.
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