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dave_30



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dave_30 28 Dec 2012, 17:44
guys i'm having serious problems with this div instruction.
it doesn't matters what number i put in eax of course it does the division and restores the result in eax but always returns zero as the reminder!!
for example this number:3BC42761
div instruction returns zero as reminder
but when i calculate it using windows calculator's MOD function returns 1 as the reminder
wtf is the problem with the fucking div instruction?
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JohnFound



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JohnFound 28 Dec 2012, 18:00
Post the code.
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dave_30



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dave_30 28 Dec 2012, 18:46
well,i'm trying to make a function that returns a rundom number between 2 value ranges.
here is the code:
Code:
proc RandomNum uses edx ebx,val1:DWORD,val2:DWORD

.if [CurrentVal]=0
invoke GetTickCount
mov [CurrentVal],eax
.endif
inc [val2]
back:
mov eax,[CurrentVal]
.if dword [mult] = 0
imul eax,459678324
mov dword [mult],1
.elseif dword [mult] = 1
imul eax,467854123
mov dword [mult],2
.elseif dword [mult] = 2
imul eax,954762312
mov dword [mult],0
.endif
mov [CurrentVal],eax
xor edx,edx
mov ebx,[val2]
div ebx
xchg eax,edx
.if dword [val1] > eax
mov eax,[val1]
.endif
.if dword [flag] = 0
mov dword [flag],1
jmp done
.endif
cmp eax,[OldVal]
jne done
cmp [OldVal],eax
je back
done:
mov [OldVal],eax
ret

endp
    


but the fucking problem is it crashes or either returns 0 or repeative numbers!i even did added check for it that if it's the same number then generate another number but still it doesn't works.i'm pretty fucking confused.
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baldr



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baldr 29 Dec 2012, 15:45
dave_30,

Why do you think this function will provide random numbers? Only one of those multipliers (second) is uneven, first is divisible by 4 and third -- by 8, thus CurrentVal quickly (around 13 calls) overflows and become 0 (and be reseeded with GetTickCount()).

Another point is your transformation of [0, 2**32) to [val1, val2) range. Even if your generator has uniform distribution, output of RandomNum() will be biased toward val1 (the only case for uniform distribution will be when val1==0 and val2 is a power of 2).
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