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HarryTuttle



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HarryTuttle 22 Apr 2004, 13:35
I want to GlobalAlloc a buffer and after received a massage I'd like to mapped the memory by custom structure to make easier retrieving some information from it.

I saw somewhere(It was on this page i think) that idea but now it looks like just I am blind and can't catch the previous information about so called "virtual structures" with is very wanted.
I tryed to search it but without success.

please 4 help!
regards,

Harry

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slav 23 Apr 2004, 20:49
Some rather quick example...

Code:

; Vrtual block that will help with offsets
virtual at 0
    DummyStruct YOURGREATSTRUCT
end virtual

; Then after allocating some memory with GlobalAlloc you can 'map' it
; in this way

    mov edi, [PtrToBuffer]
    mov [edi+DummyStruct.OneOfTheStructFields],6996

    


i hope you get the idea
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slav 23 Apr 2004, 20:57
I think it could be hard to follow if you're not use to virtual blocks so here comes a little explanation... what your are doing this way (with the virtual bocks) is defining labels to memory positions. If you state that this block begins at 0 memory position those labels are just the offsets to the different fields of the struct.
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HarryTuttle 26 Apr 2004, 06:04
I very VERY THANK YOU !!!
very smart solution:)

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Tomasz Grysztar



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Tomasz Grysztar 26 Apr 2004, 06:28
You can even do "virtual at edi" in such case.
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HarryTuttle



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HarryTuttle 08 Nov 2004, 12:27
everything ok when all the data are in DD format but what's going on the string?

Code:


struc ARRAY_MY
{

.first_name rb 16
.last_name rb 12
.age dd ?
}
...
virtual at 0
 my_array ARRAY_MY
end virtual
...
.code
inv GlobalAlloc,GMEM_FIXE,0x0ff
mov [h_mem],eax

mov edi,[h_mem]
mov [edi+my_array.age],19  ;<sets the age but how to set last name ?
...
    


best regards,
h.

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Madis731 08 Nov 2004, 18:50
I think the first thing I can think of is
Code:
    push edi ebx edx
    mov  ebx,...;Point ebx here to your string
the_loop:
    mov dl,byte [ebx]
    mov byte[edi+myarray.first_name],dl
    inc edi
    inc ebx
    cmp dl,0
    jne the_loop
    pop edx ebx edi
    

There are string copying routines but haven't had the time to dig into them.
Maybe someone here thinks of a shorter (AND faster) way to do that Razz


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HarryTuttle



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HarryTuttle 09 Nov 2004, 00:01
I thought about that:
Code:
LPTSTR lstrcpy(

    LPTSTR lpString1,  // address of buffer 
    LPCTSTR lpString2  // address of string to copy 
   );
    

but your code likes me more because of lack of import

very thank You!

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beppe85 09 Nov 2004, 11:59
AFAIK you cannot use the REP prefixes to this job, as you don't know string length ahead.

Code:
        push    edi, esi
    mov     esi, // what to write
       mov     edi, // and where
@@:
        lodsb   // perhaps we can use just movsb
    stosb   // if it sets al also

   test    al, al
      jnz     @b
@@:
       pop     edi, esi
    

This is an example of using x86 string movement, but is better to use simpler instructions(mov/inc as Madis731 used).

Again, because string length is not known until after copying, it's hard, if not impossible, to apply loop unrolling.

To make better, just not copying at all. Very Happy
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vid 09 Nov 2004, 13:59
LPSTR is "long pointer to string", LPCSTR is "long pointer to constant string" so both are pointer, and thus they are doublewords (DD)
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Madis731 09 Nov 2004, 16:48
I think the only way to know the length is to do two passes:
Code:
push eax esi ecx
    mov  esi,ptString ;Point esi here to your string
    mov  al,0
    or   ecx,-1              ;Near infinity
    add  edi,myarray.first_name
    push edi               ;Preserve array pointer
    cld                      ; cleardirection?
    repe scasb             ;Find the end
    mov  ecx,edi       ;Save the finish
    pop  edi
    sub  ecx,edi    ;Calculate difference
    ;### ecx=length, esi:edi=source:destination
    rep  movsb
pop ecx esi eax 
    

but now the code seems more complicated than before
two 'macro-instructions' with repeat feel slow, but I have
not tested them so I can't be sure.
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beppe85 11 Nov 2004, 10:20
Additionally, the cache-misses that would occur do it not worth.
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