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AsmGuru62

Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Posts: 1419
Location: Toronto, Canada

AsmGuru62

STOSB means:
1. Store byte from AL into address pointed by DI
2. Increment/Decrement DI (based on Direction Flag) to point to next byte AFTER the stored byte.

20 Oct 2012, 12:08

sbeng

Joined: 11 Oct 2012
Posts: 12

sbeng

Hi,
for function 3Dh (interrupt 21) i would print error code if file doesn't find.

Entry:

AL = access and sharing modes
DS:DX -> ASCIZ filename

Return:

CF clear if successful, AX = file handle
CF set on error AX = error code (01h,02h,03h,04h,05h,0Ch,56h)

There is my part of code:

Code:

PRINT_STATUS_KO:
       mov al,"$"
       mov  [ERROR_CODE],ax
       mov dx,ERROR_CODE
       call  write_text
       ret
 write_text:
        mov ah, 09h
        int 21h
        ret

ERROR_CODE DW 0

During execute it doesn't print nothing. I would print 01h,02h,03h,04h,05h,0Ch or 56h
Best regards.

23 Oct 2012, 09:47

LocoDelAssembly
Your code has a bug

Joined: 06 May 2005
Posts: 4633
Location: Argentina

LocoDelAssembly

Try this:

Code:

PRINT_STATUS_KO:
       ror ax, 4
       shr ah, 4

       cmp al, 10
       jbe @f
       add al, 7

@@:
       cmp ah, 10
       jbe @f
       add ah, 7

@@:
       add ax, "00"
       mov [ERROR_CODE], ax
       mov dx,ERROR_CODE
       call  write_text
       ret

 write_text:
        mov ah, 09h
        int 21h
        ret

ERROR_CODE dw 0
           db "h$"

23 Oct 2012, 14:25

sbeng

Joined: 11 Oct 2012
Posts: 12

sbeng

Thank you! It does work!
I've some question:
1) where is @f label?
2) Instruction (db "h$") does not have a left label_name variable?

LocoDelAssembly wrote:

Try this:

Code:

PRINT_STATUS_KO:
       ror ax, 4
       shr ah, 4

       cmp al, 10
       jbe @f
       add al, 7

@@:
       cmp ah, 10
       jbe @f
       add ah, 7

@@:
       add ax, "00"
       mov [ERROR_CODE], ax
       mov dx,ERROR_CODE
       call  write_text
       ret

 write_text:
        mov ah, 09h
        int 21h
        ret

ERROR_CODE dw 0
           db "h$"

24 Oct 2012, 06:06

JohnFound

Joined: 16 Jun 2003
Posts: 3502
Location: Bulgaria

JohnFound

@f means "forward to the next @@ label"; @b means "backwards to the next @@ label".
IMHO, @@ labels are not very readable and possible source of mistakes and should be used only on very short distances - 1 or 2 instructions back and forward.

24 Oct 2012, 07:35

revolution
When all else fails, read the source

Joined: 24 Aug 2004
Posts: 17665
Location: In your JS exploiting you and your system

revolution

JohnFound wrote:

IMHO, @@ labels are not very readable and possible source of mistakes and should be used only on very short distances - 1 or 2 instructions back and forward.

... and never inside of macros.

24 Oct 2012, 07:42

AsmGuru62

Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Posts: 1419
Location: Toronto, Canada

AsmGuru62

I once wrote a small loop using @@.

Then after a year or so I added some more code into the loop and
some blocks of comments and the loop no longer fit into a single page
of my IDE (I like 12 pts fonts, so I am not seeing much code in my IDE).

I did one last addition to the loop and used the @@ again -- I did not see the full loop body!

Wow! I looked for that bug for quite some time - my code started
behaving randomly. It was fun (painfully fun) to debug.

24 Oct 2012, 14:38

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