Hi!
I'm trying to create a program to print in the screen a number in decimal base from hexadecimal. I think my code is ok, but it doesn't work at all:


The number I want to print is saved in AX, "00FF". While the quotient is greater or equal to 0A, I push the remainder into the stack. When this loop ends, I print the Quotient, and I start to pop and print the remainders from the stack.
I don't know exactly where is the problem, it may be syntax, but i don't think so. Please help

Thanks

Don't have time to look right now, have to go to work. But here's a working one.

; ------------------------------------------------------------------
; os_int_to_string -- Convert unsigned integer to string
; IN: AX = int
; OUT: AX = string location

os_int_to_string:
pusha

mov ecx, 0
mov ebx, 10 ; Set BX 10, for division and mod
mov edi, ITS ; Get our pointer ready
@@:
mov edx, 0
div ebx ; Remainder in DX, quotient in AX
inc ecx ; Increase pop loop counter
push dx ; Push remainder, so as to reverse order when popping
test eax, eax ; Is quotient zero?
jnz @b ; If not, loop again
@@:
pop dx ; Pop off values in reverse order, and add 48 to make them digits
add dl, '0' ; And save them in the string, increasing the pointer each time
mov [edi], dl
inc edi
dec ecx
jnz @b

mov byte [edi], 0 ; Zero-terminate string

popa
mov eax, ITS ; Return location of string
ret


ITS db 11 dup (0)

It doesn't print the string, but returns the address to a 0 terminated string of the number in ascii, ready for printing.

Here's a simple routine that prints what's in AX. You can just zero out AH before you call it if you only want to print AL.





Hmmm, but I guess neither roboman's nor my post actually answers your question as to why yours doesn't work....

You missed an ADD AL, 0x30 before the first INT 0x10. Then, the CMP CX, 0 should be followed by a JNZ or JNE, not JZ or JE (you could also remove the CMP since DEC CX will set ZF to 1 when CX gets to zero).

This algorithm will fail when the number is less than 0x0A (the number will be prefixed with a zero while all the rest will not). Take a look at how you could fix it.

PS: I've assumed you want to print AL contents, otherwise, you need yet more fixes.

Thank you all for your alternative codes. In fact, the real problem was putting JNE instead or JE. Now my program works correctly.

You can also check out some of my conversion routines here...
http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=11615
Have fun

base conversion is something very easy.

it is as easy as writing numbers on paper.

a digit is always equal to it's value multiplied by its rank.

then, 90543 = 9 * 10^4 + 0 * 10^3 + 5 * 10^2 + 4 * 10^1 + 3* 10^0

it is exactlly the same for base 2 (binary), base 8 (octal), base 10 (decimal), base 16 (hexadecimal), base 256(ascii)....

then, always the same formula to apply:

digit = value * base^rank.
number = Sigma [0>max] (value * base^rank).

then, i just propose one thing, add a moderated snippet section on the forum, something only edited by admins, something that need comments to be validated, and something non redondant, we don't need the mega supra algo from edfed or else, just the simple algo easy to understand.

it is a little hard to imagine such a ting, but is every sections of the forum have a >snippets section, it will be good. of course, it will be a post that will contain only snippets for the category of the forum, then, DOS forum will have dos snippets, etc...


i believe that it is a lack, and that it can be relativelly easy to implement.

then, i return to the reading of the forum.