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From: Brandon Chase <tapedispenser7 AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Assembly language exit() syscall does not return correct value
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:44:07 +0000
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>On 16/03/2010 17:08, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> Brandon Chase wrote:
> " DaveK wrote:

> " "   Brandon, Cygwin isn't compatible with Linux at the assembler-code l=
evel,=20

> " So I cannot compile assembly language with Cygwin? Do I need a linux sh=
ell?
>=20
> No, that's not what anyone said.  You can use the assembler on Cygwin to =
generate
> binaries that run on Cygwin (which is I think what you're looking for), b=
ut your
> assembly source code won't work as is -- you will need to make changes of=
 the
> sort that DaveK and cgf state in the paragraphs above.

  Exactly.  Like so, for example:

> $ cat max.s
>         .section .data
>=20
> data_items: #These are the data items
>         .long 3,67,34,222,45,75,54,34,44,33,22,11,66,0
>=20
> .section .text
>=20
> .globl _main
>=20
> _main: movl $0, %edi                    # move 0 into the index register
>         movl data_items(,%edi,4), %eax  # load the first byte of data
>         movl %eax, %ebx                 # since this is the first item, %=
eax is
>                                         # the biggest
> start_loop:                             # start loop
>         cmpl $0, %eax                   # check to see if we've hit the e=
nd
>         je loop_exit
>         incl %edi                       # load next value
>         movl data_items(,%edi,4), %eax
>         cmpl %ebx, %eax                 # compare values
>         jle start_loop                  # jump to loop beginning if the n=
ew
>                                         # one isn't bigger
>         movl %eax, %ebx                 # move the value as the largest 32
>=20
>         jmp start_loop                  # jump to loop beginning
> loop_exit:
> # %ebx is the status code for the exit system call
> # and it already has the maximum number
> #       movl $1, %eax                   #1 is the exit() syscall
> # But we don't have linux syscalls!  Instead, we do
> # a c-style call to the exit() function by pushing it
> # onto the stack!
>         push %ebx
>         call    _exit
> # won't return.
>=20
> $ gcc max.s -o max.exe
>=20
> $ ./max.exe ; echo $?
> 222
>=20
> $

>  Note use of the gcc driver to compile it, rather than invoking the assem=
bler
>and linker directly, in order to let it get all the C runtime support link=
ed
>in correctly.
>
>    cheers,
>      DaveK

Thanks a lot! So I need to do all c-style syscalls for Cygwin?=20


Brandon


=20=09=09=20=09=20=20=20=09=09=20=20
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