This is my proc definition:



And my call looks like this:


In this line, I get "Error: Operand size not specified"
I don't understand why, is it because of passing EBX register directly like that?, what am I doing wrong?

And how PID and PPP are defined?

PPP is defined inside my proc at the top:



and PID is passed to this proc as DWORD too. (I just wrote them uppercased on the previous post but in the source they are all equal).

the proc im trying to invoke is defined on top of my calling proc, what could be the issue here?

The problem is that you are using INVOKE, I think you will find that STDCALL will work fine.

Thanks, that seems to work (compiles ok) however my code doesn't work as it should (and it's a direct port from MASM) too bad the source is quite long and I don't know anyone whos willing to find whats wrong with it, do you know of any fasm IRC channel I can log on to ask?

in case someone has a little bit of time and can check for obvious rookie errors, heres the source of the routine that isn't working properly:

masm: http://pastebin.com/m551d088a (original)
fasm: http://pastebin.com/m143afeb7 (ported)

When I call the masm one I get a certain result (the properly encrypted buffer) but when I call the fasm one, I get rubbish!.

Perhaps I have a few stupid mistakes in my port and thats causing the malfunction, if so I might of committed the same mistake on the other routines I ported as well...

I notice the following: Should it be?

Thanks, thanks a lot. I finally got to fix this

I know I have a long way to go, but I'm certain that this is the right path. I don't want to depend on any frameworks and I certainly do want to understand what my code does.

Say, aside from the IA32 books, what else should I read? (I'm going through the FASM docs right now but I'm a slow reader).

I suggest "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" and it's four followers by Douglas Adams, also "Infinity welcomes careful drivers" and "Better than Life" by Grant Naylor. That is what you were asking, right, some good books to read?

Better than Life is a great book, indeed. I was however asking about programming books My bad English always comes back to haunt me.

Either way, I noticed my DLL ends up being a little bigger than the MASM counterpart, any ideas?.

How much bigger? Does your data section have initialised data following uninitialised data?