On 11/16/06, Peter P. <plpeter2006@yahoo.com> wrote:
> William Couture <bcouture <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> > Er... I'm not sure what you mean by "in what language".  The original poster
> > talked about an Assembly to C translator, and I talked about my .ASM
> > (Assembly) programs.
>
> Er ... how many CPUs do you know ?

Quite a few.

Sorry, I didn't realize until now that you were referring to which processor,
not "what langauge".  It's x86 assembly.

> > As for using #define macros, that isn't even close.  For a trivial .ASM
> > program:
> >
> >       org   100h
> >       assume cs:code,ds:code,ss:code,es:code
> > entry:
> >       mov  ah,9
> >       mov  dx,offset message
> >       int    21h
> >       mov  ax,4c00h
> >       int    21h
> > message:
> >       db    "Hello, World!",0dh,0ah,24h
> > end
> >
> > would become the C program:
> >    #include <stdio.h>
> >    main()
> >        {
> >        puts("Hello, World!");
> >        exit(0);   /* optional */
> >        }
>
> I think that it would become more something along the lines of:
>
> void main(void) {
>   char  v_ah;
>   short v_dx, v_ax;
>
> // srcfile.asm:someline
> l_entry:
>   v_ax = 9;
>   v_dx = s_message;
>   f_int21h();
>
>   v_ax = 0x4c00;
>   f_int21h();
> }
>
> // INITIALIZED DATA
> // srcfile.asm:someline db    "Hello, World!",0dh,0ah,24h
> char s_message[] = "Hello, World!" '\x0d' '\x0a' '\x24' '\0';
>
> //end

I wouldn't pay for that level of "translation" -- it would be worse
than useless.

> By the way, what's the 0x24 for ? I am not aware of this control character being
> used for something (or I forgot about it - I did very little x86 assembly).

DOS "write string" (function 9) uses '$' (24h) as the string terminator.
Silly holdover from long ago...

Bill

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