Having read these posts, now you know why I wrote matching prologues and epilogues so that you are free of the guesswork to balance the stack. ML64 is by no means a friendly tool but if you get it right, there is little that you cannot do.
I understand completely. As I poked around the files in the SDK, I see all the work that has been done.
I am getting my feet wet. I am also the type of person that likes to peek underneath the hood and see how things are made. I also like to attempt things on my own at first as I learn. Now that you have explain things about the 64 bit version, I will probably go back to using the 32 bit compiler. I don't have any reason to use 64 bit, except I wanted to see if I could do large numbers, as I had an algorithm that I wanted to test. It worked out and I got my large numbers.
I guess that I do have a project in mind. Eventually I would like to get 128 bit size numbers, perhaps even up to 256 bit. I understand that there is a lot of prep work involved with specific x... or y... registers. Any references out there to help get me going on this? Even if its just to calculate Fibonacci of 1000! in assembly.
I am still young in my programming career path, and I realize that I enjoy programming more with embedded systems than making popular UI apps with the latest and greatest framework for Javascript. As I mentioned that I am in a graduate program, so I am heading towards some specialization. I just got started, so far it's towards distributed peer to peer systems, decentralized applications, cryptography. Now, you guys can understand my curiosity.
Programming is my third career path in life. My first career was as a Russian linguist - Intelligence expert in the Army and then at the State Department leading up to the end of the cold war and 9/11. Then, I became a business man, now the wife runs our businesses - she's better at it than I was... lol, she's a natural, born, caring leader with firm convictions and great financial accumen. I was too rough on people, good with numbers, however. I am going back to that type of analytical work that I love.