Problem assembling with fasm under radasm

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Tony

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Tony 14 Dec 2006, 13:14

I hope I'm posting this to the correct group.

I've just begun learning x86 assembly language and I have setup RadASM to use fasm.

In RadASM I have created a new Win32 app project called Test using the Win32 dialog app Project wizard. So all the code at this point is generated by the wizard.

When I try to assemble it I get the following error:

FASM "Test.asm" "Test.exe"
flat assembler version 1.67.15 (1196914 kilobytes memory)
Test.asm [21]:
enter
error: invalid operand.

Fasm doesn't seem to recognise the "enter" instruction ?

Any help would be much appreciated by this assembly language newbie.

Thanks,

Tony

14 Dec 2006, 13:14

vid
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vid 14 Dec 2006, 13:39

"Win32 dialog app Project wizard" is clearly pretty outdated. Who is it's maintainer?

14 Dec 2006, 13:39

Garthower

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Garthower 14 Dec 2006, 14:05

RadAsm breaks the specification, or it's made for any optimization of input of a source code. Here that is written about this command in documentation by AMD:

Quote:

ENTER
Creates a stack frame for a procedure.
The first operand specifies the size of the stack frame allocated by the instruction.
The second operand specifies the nesting level (0 to 31—the value is automatically
masked to 5 bits). For nesting levels of 1 or greater, the processor copies earlier stack
frame pointers before adjusting the stack pointer. This action provides a called
procedure with access points to other nested stack frames.
The 32-bit enter N, 0 (a nesting level of 0) instruction is equivalent to the following
32-bit instruction sequence:

push ebp ; save current EBP
mov ebp, esp ; set stack frame pointer value
sub esp, N ; allocate space for local variables

The ENTER and LEAVE instructions provide support for block structured languages.
The LEAVE instruction releases the stack frame on returning from a procedure.
In 64-bit mode, the operand size of ENTER defaults to 64 bits, and there is no prefix
available for encoding a 32-bit operand size.
Action

// See “Pseudocode Definitions” on page 49.
ENTER_START:
temp_ALLOC_SPACE = word-sized immediate specified in the instruction
(first operand), zero-extended to 64 bits
temp_LEVEL = byte-sized immediate specified in the instruction
(second operand), zero-extended to 64 bits
temp_LEVEL = temp_LEVEL AND 0x1f
// only keep 5 bits of level count
PUSH.v old_RBP
ENTER Create Procedure Stack Frame

Mnemonic Opcode Description
ENTER imm16, 0 C8 iw 00 Create a procedure stack frame.
ENTER imm16, 1 C8 iw 01 Create a nested stack frame for a procedure.
ENTER imm16, imm8 C8 iw ib Create a nested stack frame for a procedure.

14 Dec 2006, 14:05

vid
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vid 14 Dec 2006, 17:28

i think that "enter" was overdefined by FASM macro in old times. But now it is not used anymore

14 Dec 2006, 17:28

RedGhost

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RedGhost 14 Dec 2006, 23:22

The syntax for enter is:

Code:

ENTER imm,imm                 ; C8 iw ib

The first immediate is the number of bytes to allocate on the stack and the second is the nesting level. I suppose you could use "enter 0, 0". Just modify the macro it is using.

edit: seems Garthower already posted this.

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14 Dec 2006, 23:22

Tony

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Tony 15 Dec 2006, 09:00

Thanks to everyone for their help with this.

Tony

15 Dec 2006, 09:00

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