comparison Tasm vs Masm vs Fasm vs Rasm

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Luc Van de Velde

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Luc Van de Velde 28 Mar 2009, 19:26

general discussion... fasm vs rasm (no... not rosasm!)

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28 Mar 2009, 19:26

LocoDelAssembly
Your code has a bug

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LocoDelAssembly 28 Mar 2009, 19:57

The following lists only messages shown by FASMW 1.67.36 that don't match what you have said:

mov ebx,ss:[eax+ebx+ecx] -> "Error: Extra characters on line."
mov ebx, [ss:eax+ebx+ecx] ->"Error: invalid expression." (the same as above but with syntax corrected)

mov ebx,[ss:2*ebp] -> No error now, you forgot to use FASM syntax at this one

mov ebx,[ss:eax+5*ebx] -> "Error: invalid address." (again I had to correct syntax)
mov ebx,[ss:eax+10*ebx] -> "Error: invalid address." (this is the last time I'll say that I've corrected syntax, everytime you say "ss:" somewhere then surely I've placed it in the correct place, i.e. inside the square brackets)
mov ebx,[ss:eax+ax] -> "Error: reserved word used as symbol."
mov ebx,[ss:eax-ebx] -> "Error: invalid address."
mov ebx,[ss:2*eax+2*ebx] -> "Error: invalid address."

[edit]BTW, where can I download RASM?

28 Mar 2009, 19:57

Luc Van de Velde

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Luc Van de Velde 28 Mar 2009, 20:28

youre right... sorry but i didnt know u had to put the segment inside
the memory brackets... so, i found no bugs in fasm

Here is the link to download RASM
http://www.filefactory.com/file/af8gah7/n/rsources.zip

Unzip to c:\
notes:
Rasm is open source and public domain
Rasm can assemble itself
In development since september 1997
Rasm can produce .sys/.com/dos .exe/win .exe(PE)
Additional functionallity for designing/testing/routing and producing chips
In cplayout directory u will find asm.exe... its the same as rasm.exe
If u run layout.bat to produce a chip layout u should increase the number of
layers to 16 to see a successfull routing result... just press '-' on a qwerty
keybourd (right next to 0 on an azerty)
pressing 'd' will start ASTEROIDS
pressing 'g' will start 4 in a row
just press 'h' (help) to see the fuction of all keys[url][/url][url][/url]

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28 Mar 2009, 20:28

DOS386

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DOS386 29 Mar 2009, 03:58

> [edit]BTW, where can I download RASM?

http://betov.free.fr/ Laughing

Luc Van de Velde wrote:

youre right... soryy but i didnt know u had to put the segment inside the memory brackets... so, i found no bugs in fasm

Quote:

Here is the link to download RASMhttp://www.filefactory.com/file/af798f6/n/rsources_rar/

No project page ???

Quote:

Rasm is open source and public domain Rasm can assemble itself
In development since september 1997

Nice, but this doesn't give you the right to include RAR.EXE Sad

Also, there is at least one faulty PIF file, and your buggy "comparison" test Sad

so please delete or update the file, it's very unfair to claim "FASM is the most buggy" while in fact it was your BUG.

> Rasm can produce .sys/.com/dos .exe/win .exe(PE)

Nice ... if true.

> Additional functionallity for designing/testing/routing and producing chips

Forgot the pizza-feature ? Laughing

> pressing 'd' will start ASTEROIDS

falling on my head ? Laughing

>pressing 'g' will start 4 in a row

4 what ?

BTW, the "comparison" as-is is of course total invalid, nevertheless, it shows that error messages produced by FASM are indeed suboptimal (MOV AX, [DX] | LEA ECX, [EAX+EBX+ECX] ... compared to what RASM reportedly (and partially MASM and TASM) do produce.

_________________
Bug Nr.: 12345

Title: Hello World program compiles to 100 KB !!!

Status: Closed: NOT a Bug

29 Mar 2009, 03:58

LocoDelAssembly
Your code has a bug

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LocoDelAssembly 29 Mar 2009, 04:55

Yep, better explanation than "invalid address." could be a good thing to have and I think that something must be done with "reserved word used as symbol." (discussed already somewhere), it doesn't even say what symbol is (it is AX), and still it doesn't make clear that the real problem is that it is an invalid addressing.

Once you get used it doesn't matter anymore, but yet it could save some time in cases where the instruction is "mov reg, [some_macro_generated_equ]" where you don't have a clue for what reason it is wrong.

29 Mar 2009, 04:55

revolution
When all else fails, read the source

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revolution 29 Mar 2009, 15:57

INC.TXT wrote:

;[ebp+esp] ;Tasm: OK turns esp into base
;Masm: OK turns esp into base
;Fasm: OK turns esp into base
;Rasm: OK turns esp into base

A few years back I had to plead with the author to get this behaviour changed to what you show above. Else this would have turned up in your list as a bug. Strange how these things come up again and again. Wink

29 Mar 2009, 15:57

revolution
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revolution 29 Mar 2009, 16:10

INC.TXT wrote:

... and Fasm use algebra on registers)

Yes fasm does but you have to do it the right way else you will get an error:

Code:

mov eax,[eax+eax+eax]     ;okay
mov eax,[eax+ebx+eax]     ;okay
mov eax,[eax+ebx-ebx+ecx] ;okay
mov eax,[eax+ebx+ecx-ebx] ;<---- error: invalid expression.

The last two are actually the same instruction, but the second form will error because the expression calculator cannot hold more than two registers at a time. So when evaluating it gets to the third register (ecx) and can't put it into the holding variable and gives an error. This also works fine ...

Code:

mov eax,[eax+ebx-eax+ebx+ecx-2*ebx+edx]

... but the order of subtractions is important to ensure it will compile successfully.

29 Mar 2009, 16:10

Luc Van de Velde

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Luc Van de Velde 29 Mar 2009, 22:44

a test file to see if your assembler optimizes branches perfectly

Description:		Download
Filename:	BPUZZLE.ASM
Filesize:	1.83 KB
Downloaded:	2208 Time(s)

29 Mar 2009, 22:44

Luc Van de Velde

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Luc Van de Velde 30 Mar 2009, 00:29

look at how rasm deals with repeats... Smile

u="_"
i=0
j=1
testing:
lab&i&u&j:
sub eax,i
jns lab&i&u&j
i=i+1
if i lt 100000 goto testing ;any label can be jumped to by a compile-time goto, also forward jumps!

lab&i&u&j becomes sequentially:
lab0_1
lab1_1
lab2_1
lab3_1
....
lab99999_1 (loop exits)

if u want a generic goto: if 1 goto label
time to compile this (100000 loops):1.6 seconds... on a cheap laptop

30 Mar 2009, 00:29

revolution
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revolution 30 Mar 2009, 01:06

Are you trying to have face-off between Rasm and fasm? Or are you just unsure how to do the same in fasm?

Code:

use32
u equ "_"
j equ 1
rept 100000 i:0 {
  lab#i#u#j:
    sub eax,i
    jns lab#i#u#j
}

Quote:

flat assembler version 1.67.32 (100000 kilobytes memory)
1 passes, 1.6 seconds, 699744 bytes.

On my 6 year old cheap laptop.

30 Mar 2009, 01:06

DOS386

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DOS386 30 Mar 2009, 01:18

Luc Van de Velde wrote:

look at how rasm deals with repeats

Before further advertising R[os]ASM here, there are 2 things you should do pretty urgently:

* Update or delete your comparison text in both forum attach and the package

* Fix the (C) violations in your package

_________________
Bug Nr.: 12345

Title: Hello World program compiles to 100 KB !!!

Status: Closed: NOT a Bug

30 Mar 2009, 01:18

revolution
When all else fails, read the source

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revolution 30 Mar 2009, 01:45

Can Rasm solve this problem with minimal code (5 bytes)?

Code:

use32
a: mov eax,[edx+c-a-5]
   mov esi,[edx+c-a-7]
c:

See here for some discussion.

30 Mar 2009, 01:45

LocoDelAssembly
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LocoDelAssembly 30 Mar 2009, 02:42

Is this really RosASM? I've tried to confirm that yesterday but I was unable to find the sources at betov's site.

30 Mar 2009, 02:42

vid
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vid 30 Mar 2009, 11:45

Quote:

Can Rasm solve this problem with minimal code (5 bytes)?

I remember correcting betov oversimplified ideas about code size optimization about 1-2 years ago, so my quess would be no Smile

30 Mar 2009, 11:45

Luc Van de Velde

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Luc Van de Velde 30 Mar 2009, 17:47

conditional GOTO's are very usefull
ex.
-for jumping out of a loop
-can simulate any type of loop

IF condition GOTO label is missing in all assemblers except rasm

note: the condition can be anything... not just for loop counter only!

30 Mar 2009, 17:47

revolution
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revolution 30 Mar 2009, 17:58

fasm has while/break/end, repeat/break/end and if/break/else/end but they are all assembly-stage block directives. But the pre-processor macros could definitely benefit from an exitm type directive. I miss that sometimes.

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30 Mar 2009, 17:58

Luc Van de Velde

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Luc Van de Velde 30 Mar 2009, 19:10

No Rasm has nothing to do with Betov's excellent Rosasm!
I dont use a preprocessor in rasm... u lose POWER that way
Each label also has a dword pointer to its source code address!
Take note of this Thomas!
that way u can easily implement 'IF cond GOTO label'
This is possible becouse rasm loads all source code into memory

30 Mar 2009, 19:10

Japheth

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Japheth 30 Mar 2009, 19:54

Luc Van de Velde wrote:

conditional GOTO's are very usefull

IF condition GOTO label is missing in all assemblers except rasm

Masm v6 has the GOTO directive. It works within macros only. It's hardly used, because the more structured loop directives usually are sufficient.

30 Mar 2009, 19:54

DOS386

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DOS386 30 Mar 2009, 23:04

LocoDelAssembly wrote:

Is this really RosASM?

NO. Sorry for the confusion Sad

Quote:

confirm that yesterday but I was unable to find the sources at betov's site.

Inside the EXEcutables ? I don't use RosASM, heh Wink

Luc Van de Velde wrote:

> Take note of this Thomas!

Of what ? And you take note of Tomasz's name!

30 Mar 2009, 23:04

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