From: Ryan McGee <don't AT spam DOT me>
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Subject: Re: NASM functions
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 20:25:06 -0600
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Sorry about the typo.  What's in esp to start with?  The stack address?

Ryan

Bill Currie wrote:

> Ryan McGee wrote:
> >
> > I would greatly appreciate it if someone could explain to me how this
> > code allows you to accsess your paremiters passed to that function:
> >
> > push ebp
> > move eax, [ebp + 8)
>      ^
> typo?
>
> >
> > The question I have is how do you access the stack by pushing the value
> > of bp onto it?  Thanks
>
> It doesn't.  There's a `mov ebp,esp' line missing. ie
>
> push ebp
> mov ebp,esp
> mov eax,[ebp + 8]
> ...
>
> Bill
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