Always moving signed dword

[Jordi]

Hello,

I was gone for a while. Now I am back and the forum has been changed. Great work 

I would like to know how I could move a signed dword. I have searched on the forum, the internet and Intel manual. Unfortunatly al what I found was  a instruction called movsx. This function does not allow me to move sdword to sdword. According to the manual you cannot move sdwords with a normal mov instruction.

My goal is to always move signed dwords. I would not like to move an unsigned dword.

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include \masm32\include\masm32rt.inc
includelib \masm32\lib\msvcrt.lib

.DATA?

t1  SDWORD ?
var5  SDWORD ?

.code
start:
mov ebx, 1
add ebx, 2
mov t1, ebx
movsx var5, t1

end start


Could someone explain me how it works? Also is there something that I could use a reference like a C++ reference? Because in the masm reference I could not find something, nor in the tutorials. I am also interested  in procs/routines/functions to write messages and digits to the console. I don't want the answer what that procs are but could somebody point me in the right direction so I could find it myself. That is I think the best way to learn it  ::)

Thank you very much in advance.

[Farabi]

Dword and signed dword is treated the same. It is the instruction that make it difference.

[Jordi]

thank you for the reply. You mean I should use the normal mov instruction? if I do this I will get an error. error A2000: memory operand not allowed in context

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.code
start:
mov ebx, 1
add ebx, 2
mov t1, ebx
mov var5, t1

end start

[dedndave]

we cannot see how you have defined "t1" and "var5"   :P

what you cannot do is move content from one memory operand to another, at least not with MOV

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mov var5, t1
is illegal

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push t1
pop var5
or

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mov eax,t1
mov var5,eax
are legal

[Jordi]

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include \masm32\include\masm32rt.inc
includelib \masm32\lib\msvcrt.lib

.DATA?

t1  SDWORD ?
var5  SDWORD ?

.code
start:
mov ebx, 1
add ebx, 2
mov t1, ebx
mov var5, t1

end start

this is all the code. Thank you very much for your response. I really appreciate that.

I don not want to bother you with simple questions. Is there a reference besides the reference in the masm folder? I would like to use functions so I could message floats en digits to the console. Could you point me in a direction so I could find the answer myself?

[dedndave]

there are numerous sources of information
for instructions, the intel/amd manuals are probably best

you are missing an ExitProcess at the end of the program
that is a "ms windows" thing, though - not intel/amd
i use MSDN - but there are other sources

another type of issue might be specific to the assembler you are using

the help files in \masm32\help can give you a lot of info
also - the \masm32\examples folder can show you a lot of common techniques

the includelib you have is already taken care of in masm32rt.inc
it is a plain text file - open it with notepad to see what it does

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include \masm32\include\masm32rt.inc

.DATA?

t1  SDWORD ?
var5  SDWORD ?

.code
start:
mov ebx, 1
add ebx, 2
mov t1, ebx
mov var5, ebx
invoke ExitProcess,0

end start

EDIT - oops, i copied your mistake - lol
it should work, now   :P