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Here is a quick demo using the function _splitpath from Pelles C run-time static library crt.lib

_splitpath depends on the function strncpy which is extracted automatically from crt.lib



include     splitpathDemo.inc

.data

path1       db 'D:\PellesC\project\splitpath.asm',0
f1          db 'drive = %s',13,10
            db 'dir   = %s',13,10
            db 'name  = %s',13,10
            db 'ext   = %s',13,10,0

.data?

buffer      db 128 dup(?)
drive1      db 4 dup(?)
dir1        db 32 dup(?)
name1       db 16 dup(?)
ext1        db 4 dup(?)

.code

start:

    invoke  _splitpath,ADDR path1,ADDR drive1,ADDR dir1,\
            ADDR name1,ADDR ext1

    invoke  wsprintf,ADDR buffer,ADDR f1,ADDR drive1,ADDR dir1,ADDR name1,\
            ADDR ext1

    invoke  StdOut,ADDR buffer
    invoke  ExitProcess,0

END start


Annoying but actual - somebody could say to Pellec, that need support MASM in Pelles C IDE somehow  :icon_exclaim:

Trust me here, there is nothing wrong with POASM, its a very good tool. It has different macro notation to MASM but it does Intel spec assembler notation fine.

Hi Adamanteus,

No need to contact Pelle for this task. Follow the path :

Project -> Project Options -> Macros

Modify AS to reflect the path of ml.exe : \masm32\bin\ml.exe
Modify ASFLAGS to : /c /coff

Quote from: hutch-- on May 24, 2012, 04:15:37 AM
Trust me here, there is nothing wrong with POASM, its a very good tool. It has different macro notation to MASM but it does Intel spec assembler notation fine.

I totally agree. POASM has a lot of nice features I wished MASM/JWASM would support.  ;)
But I think we get a little bit offtopic here.

Thanks for the example, Vortex.


Regards
Greenhorn

Hi pavshinAN,

Welcome to the forum.

You are right and the differences in the macro syntax should not be a problem.

Hi RGyaznoff,

Welcome to the forum.

I'm not glad of polink - it's not understand release msc library debug record 0 - and not linking  ::)
Vortex - much thanks.

Hi Adamanteus,

Thanks for your report.

If you found a bug, you can post Pelle's forum :

http://forum.pellesc.de/index.php

Pelle declares all the changes on every release :

http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/changes_650_700.htm

Hi NKjulanoff,

Welcome to the forum.

Yes, Poasm's macro notation is different but it can process simple Masm macros without problem.

Another example :

.386
.model flat,stdcall
option casemap:none

printf      PROTO C :VARARG
__bheapinit PROTO C :VARARG
__ioinit    PROTO C :VARARG
ExitProcess PROTO :DWORD

includelib  \PellesC\lib\Win\kernel32.lib
includelib  \Pellesc\lib\crt.lib

.data

str1        db 'Testing Pelles C static run-time library crt.lib',0

.code

start:

    invoke  __bheapinit
    test    eax,eax
    jz      finish
    invoke  __ioinit

    invoke  printf,ADDR str1

finish:

    invoke  ExitProcess,0

END start


Quote from: NZavaloff on January 04, 2013, 03:28:51 AM
I totally agree. POASM has a lot of nice features I wished MASM/JWASM would support.

Ok. However, "a lot" is not a absolutely rock-solid scientific term - I guess nowadays it's primarily used in the context "so many that you can't count them at a first, brief glance. So for some people "a lot" may be everything beyond 1. As for me, I'd say "a lot" starts with 17 ( for Dustin Hoffman in "Rain Man", "a lot" was clearly beyond 246 ).

Now, after this clarification, would you please tell us the "lot of" nice features that POASM has but other assemblers are missing?

I really like the CINCLUDE of POASM. This allowed me to use the ".h" file emitted by the resource editor in ASM code.

This was until I "pestered"/"requested"  :greensml:  KetilO (ResEd) to add the necessary features in ResEd.
(This was before RadASM could edit the .rc like ResEd)

Regards,
Shantanu

RGyaznoff ...
AKabanchuk ...
NKjulanoff ...
NZavaloff ...
OLzenizin ...

Hm, I guess I talked to a bot  :icon_redface:. It sounds somewhat Russian...

Wasn't this forum supposed to have a smart bot-detection mechanism?

Hi japheth,

Quote from: japheth on January 09, 2013, 06:56:26 PM
It sounds somewhat Russian...

oh yes, he's from Moscow, Russia.

But never mind, welcome to the forum, OLzenizin. I think you're a real person, not a spam bot.

Gunther

Hi OLzenizin,

Welcome to the forum.

Добро пожаловать, mulaninMX :icon14:

Hi mulaninMX,

Quote from: mulaninMX on April 16, 2013, 10:53:55 PM
Trust me here, there is nothing wrong with POASM, its a very good tool.

right and welcome to the forum.

Gunther

All those posts contain only a random sentence from a previous post. I would guess bots like japheth said.

Fascinating, I wonder what genius cobbled the script together to ape bits from previous posts ?

Hi ISaminov,

welcome to the forum.

Gunther

don't be so naive Gunther :biggrin:
look at this, they are all the same bot:
ISaminov   Gender: Male Age:28 Location:Россия Москва
mulaninMX  Gender: Male Age:30 Location:Россия Москва
OLzenizin  Gender: Male Age:33 Location:Россия Москва
NZavaloff  Gender: Male Age:32 Location:Астраханская область, Камызякский р-н, п. Станья
NKjulanoff Gender: Male Age:33 Location:Россия Москва
AKabanchuk Gender: Male Age:32 Location:Россия Москва
RGyaznoff  Gender: Male Age:37 Location:Россия Москва
pavshinAN  Gender: Male Age:33 Location:Россия Москва

Japhet is a genius, he figured it out first :idea:
I think we have an issue here :exclaim:
if the Location contains a letter я it is the bot
I think that it will be necessary to delete this project and start the new one for Poasm
because the bug is somehow planted here

Hi habran,

spam bot, could be or not. But Moscow. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow) has over 11 million inhabitants. That's a lot. Furthermore, the Astrakhan Oblast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrakhan_Oblast) is hundreds of miles away from Moscow in south Russia.

Quote from: habran on April 18, 2013, 06:19:54 AM
Japhet is a genius, he figured it out first :idea:
I think we have an issue here :exclaim:
if the Location contains a letter я it is the bot

I don't know if Andreas likes your statement. But is that right? We shouldn't discriminate without exact knowledge. If you're sure and you've a definitive proof, then it's a problem.

Gunther

Quote from: habran on April 18, 2013, 06:19:54 AM
if the Location contains a letter я it is the bot

Россия Москва simply means Russia, Moscow. And there is a huge assembler community over there, so I wouldn't be surprised if they visited our little site. On the other hand, the posts really look a bit bot-tish ;-)

Back to contents: What is the meaning of this warning?

polib /def:mshtml.def /extract:ShowHTMLDialog /out:test.lib /machine:x86
POLIB: warning: Unable to find member 'ShowHTMLDialog'.

mshtml.def:
LIBRARY "MSHTML.dll"
EXPORTS
ShowHTMLDialog

As a matter of fact, the created library (1412 bytes) works like a charm...
(I posted this also at Pelles C forum)

Hey Gunther, I don't discriminate people, I hate equally everyone  :badgrin:
One of my lifetime friend is a Russian from Moskva, doctor of chemistry
He is an excellent chess player, his great disappointment in me is only
that I newer let him win even 1 game against me :eusa_naughty:

If someone write one post for the first time without introducing themselves and
than never ever respond to any comment, something must be then rotten there :icon_confused:

QuoteI don't know if Andreas likes your statement.

He certainly doesn't like it, if someone said that to me I would hunt him down for sure 8)
Hi Andreas, I apologize, I actually only wanted to say that you are very clever :t
If you succeed in my proposal for freing RBP register I will return to you back the former title :eusa_clap:

BTW Cyrillic was compulsory in my primary school, so I can read and write it :P

BTW (second time) we all enjoy JWasm but I can not find JWASM page in this forum
what happened to the equal opportunity? sleeping :icon_exclaim: 

Hi JJ

QuoteOn the other hand, the posts really look a bit bot-tish ;-)

be more decisive, one hand or the other :biggrin:
if something looks like an apple, smells like an apple and taste like an apple than it must be an aple ;) 

Quote from: habran on April 18, 2013, 02:45:47 PM
if something looks like an apple, smells like an apple and taste like an apple than it must be an apple ;)

Reminds me of an old joke they used to make about Eastern German communists... the end product would be chocolate 8)

Quotethe end product would be chocolate

Certainly, they had some imagination :P
these days people only have damn internet (and spam bots) ;)

Here, it's known as the duck test.

Which is actually attributed to Alan Turing, see the Turing Duck Test (http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Turing_Duck_Test)

Thanks MichaelW & jj2007
You have enriched me with the knowledge :t
this world is full of sh*t, I meant surprises :biggrin:

The dependencies are extracted automatically by the linker.

Two users above are spammers ::) They promote the site in their custom-website link near the avatar. Just look to their sentences: it's dumb repeat of the sentences of the other, true members. For example, look to the content of the post above, and then to the content of the Erol's post two posts above - the spammer copied Erol's sentence.

The post #31 is also spammer's post ::) That are all russian websites with services.

Yeah, astonishing that they can teach parrots reading and writing nowadays :P

I will delete those postings.

Erol,

Quote from: Vortex on December 03, 2013, 06:32:03 AM
I will delete those postings.

:t

Gunther

Fine. Do we have another spam bot from Россия Москва?

Gunther

Just for curiosity: How much does Hyund mot stud mosco (shortened to distract google) pay you to post this crap?

Quote from: jj2007 on April 15, 2015, 05:08:53 PM
Just for curiosity: How much does Hyund mot stud mosco (shortened to distract google) pay you to post this crap?

Not very much, I think. The question is: Must we live with the fact that this thread is occupied by spammers?

Gunther

No question motorinVK looks like a bot, but here's another thought. When I read this thread earlier, posts described exactly what the spambots were doing: grabbing a quote from an earlier post; registering as Male, around age thirty, from Moscow or thereabouts, with a Cyrillic backward R, etc. It occurred to me, a good joke would be to post something exactly like motorinVK: a human pretending to be a robot! I didn't do it because I'm too socialized, but maybe someone else did?

Just a thought ...

Quote from: rrr314159 on April 15, 2015, 07:40:04 PM
No question motorinVK looks like a bot, ...

Yes. We know the used avatar very well.

Gunther

Interestingly, those bots are interested in C run-time libraries.  :biggrin:

By the way, I removed that posting.

Quote from: Vortex on April 16, 2015, 03:25:47 AM
By the way, I removed that posting.

Godd decision, Erol.  :t But the question from post #39 remains.

Gunther

Hi Khidalov,
Nice to see you here. Who programmed you?

I removed that message. Ironically, those bots are "interested" in C run-time libraries.  :biggrin:

For example, look to the content of the post above, and then to the content of the Erol's post two posts above - the spammer copied Erol's sentence.

Hey, that phrase almost made sense - you are improving your bot :t

Quote from: Vteobitov on August 18, 2015, 06:41:22 PM
For example, look to the content of the post above, and then to the content of the Erol's post two posts above - the spammer copied Erol's sentence.

One question remains: What's your programming language?

Gunther

QSort sample built with the modules extracted from Pelles crt0.lib :

include Sample.inc

CompareProc PROTO C :DWORD,:DWORD

NUMB_OF_ELEMENTS equ 10

.data

numbers     dd 29,12,32,65,58,7,12,11,11,97
format1     db '%d',13,10,0

.code

start:

    invoke  qsort,ADDR numbers,\
            NUMB_OF_ELEMENTS,\
            SIZEOF DWORD,ADDR CompareProc

    call    PrintArray

    invoke  ExitProcess,0
   

CompareProc PROC C arg1:DWORD,arg2:DWORD

    mov     ecx,arg1
    mov     edx,arg2
    mov     eax,DWORD PTR [ecx]
    sub     eax,DWORD PTR [edx]
    ret

CompareProc ENDP


PrintArray  PROC uses esi ebx

    mov     ebx,NUMB_OF_ELEMENTS
    mov     esi,OFFSET numbers
@@:
    invoke  printf,ADDR format1,\
            DWORD PTR [esi]

    add     esi,4
    dec     ebx
    jnz     @b
    ret

PrintArray ENDP


END start

\PellesC\bin\poasm _crt_constraint.asm
\PellesC\bin\poasm printf.asm
\PellesC\bin\poasm Sample.asm
\PellesC\bin\polink /SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE /LIBPATH:\PellesC\lib\Win Sample.obj printf.obj qsort_s.obj memmove.obj memcpy.obj _crt_constraint.obj