Hello everyone, can you help me with this particular problem I'm facing when I try to write decimal inside of a recursive function? Here's the code, and the function basically calculates the sum of an input integer up to and including that number using recursive calls.
INCLUDE Irvine32.inc
.data
prompt byte "Please enter a number: ",0
text1 byte "Just entered, about to calculate sum using ",0
number dword ?
.code
main PROC
mov edx, offset prompt
call WriteString
call ReadInt
mov number,eax
mov ecx,number
mov eax,0
call CalcSum
L1:
call WriteDec
call Crlf
exit
main ENDP
CalcSum PROC
cmp ecx, 0
jz L2
add eax,ecx
dec ecx
call Calcsum
L2:
ret
Calcsum ENDP
END main
What I'm stuck on is that every time the recursive function is called, 2 sets of messages will pop up, saying:
"Just entered, about to calculate sum using xxx" where xxx is the value it received and "About to return yyy as my answer for xxx" where xxx is again what it received and yyy is what it calculated. For example, if the input number is 2. I want the message to show:
"Just entered, about to calculate sum using 2"
"About to return 1 as my answer for 2"
"Just entered, about to calculate sum using 1"
"About to return 3 as my answer for 1"
In conclusion, I don't know how to save the number values after each changed so that they are saved every time a recursive function is called to be output onto the screen. By the way, using functions inside of the Irvine library would be great! Thank you for your time and consideration!
Simply loop within your CalcSum procedure:
CalcSum PROC
L0:
add eax,ecx
dec ecx
jnz L0
ret
CalcSum ENDP