Howto compile 8086 Assembly code? 1

[dumboGuy]

I have some (8086) assembly code (in SMALL mode). I need to compile this using VC++ (into an .obj file). How do I do this? Any advice and suggestions welcome

thanks in advance

 

[PerFnurt]

Can't you just put it inside an _asm block?

/Per

_{if (typos) cout << &quot;My fingers are faster than my brain. Sorry for the typos.&quot;;}

 

[Cagliostro]

you can write it inline
vor example:

__asm mov ax, ax

or

__asm
{
push ax
pop ax
}

Ion Filipski

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[dumboGuy]

Thanks for the tip...

but it does not seem to be working since different SEGMENTs are initialized... also it is not recognizing data types 'dw'.

I've forgotten how I was doing it in college

 

[Cagliostro]

could you give a piece of code?

Ion Filipski

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AIM: IonFilipski
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[dumboGuy]

Thanks for the effort Ion

I need the Gestalt pattern matcher logic:

http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=1103/ddj8807c/

I've been trying to compile it with the Borland's ancient Tasm32 (ver 5.0) and Turbo C++ (ver 1.01). Managed to link and execute seperately but it dint work successfully.

regards

 

[Cagliostro]

Oh, I understand, you used Borland products. Microsoft VisualC++ supports only MASM instruction.

Ion Filipski

ICQ: 95034075
AIM: IonFilipski
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[PerFnurt]

Made a start on trying to convert, where I instead of using the static asm data, allocate regular C++ variables.

void foo()
{
	__int16 stcknum=0;
	__int16 score=0;
	__int16* ststr1[25];
_asm
{


        push   bp                 ;save BP reg.
        mov    bp,sp              ;save SP reg in BP for use in program
        push   es                 ;save the ES segment register
        mov    ax,ds              ;copy DS segement register to ES
        mov    es,ax
        xor    ax,ax              ;zero out AX for clearing of SCORE var.
        mov    score,ax           ;zero out SCORE
        mov    stcknum,ax         ;initalize number of stack entries to 0
        mov    esi,ststr1        ;move beginning pointer of string 1 to SI
   .
   .
etc

/Per

_{if (typos) cout << &quot;My fingers are faster than my brain. Sorry for the typos.&quot;;}

 

[Salem]

Instead of trying to coerce old 16 bit assembler into a 32 bit C compiler, why not just search the web for a 'C' implementation.

Here

http://www.gate.net/~ddata/utilities/simil.c

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[dumboGuy]

Thanks for both the links Salem. Thanks all for the tips. I needed the hack real quick.

/dumbo