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From: David Ching on 13 Nov 2009 18:03 "AliR" <AliR(a)online.nospam> wrote in message news:ORgjXMLZKHA.4932(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > "files"? that your problem, you are trying to open more than 1 file. :o) > I only specified one file (short filename too) so perhaps they have a problem with the parser as well as their English syntax. ;) -- David
From: Geoff on 13 Nov 2009 18:43 On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:03:27 -0500, Joseph M. Newcomer <newcomer(a)flounder.com> wrote: >Has anyone ever encountered the documentation for MASM. Not the useless garbage in the >MSDN, but real documentation. THe kind that gives the syntax of identifiers, for example, >or explains what options are available with the OPTIONS directive (not just a list of >them, but the actual explanations)? Or the syntax of a string, or of an initializer? > >I'm reverse-engineering some of this as I am designing a course in x86 assembly code >(really! Turns out people need to *read* it), but I'd be happier if I found real >documentation somewhere. > >The last time I wrote assembler it was for a device driver in MS-DOS, in 1989. But >apparently some things never go away, such as the need to know it, but nobody teaches it >any longer. > joe >Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP] >email: newcomer(a)flounder.com >Web: http://www.flounder.com >MVP Tips: http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm Found through Bing. http://www.freebookzone.com/fetch.php?bkcls=pl_asm&bkidx=21 http://www.freebookzone.com/fetch.php?bkcls=pl_asm&bkidx=20 Click on the zip icon for an archive of .doc files.
From: Liviu on 13 Nov 2009 23:39 "Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer(a)flounder.com> wrote... > > Has anyone ever encountered the documentation for MASM. You don't mention the version. Besides the masm32 site well pointed already, for some v6.1x links see for example.. http://doc.ddart.net/asm/Microsoft_MASM_Programmers_Guide_v6.1/ http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AsmTools/MASM/ http://web.sau.edu/LillisKevinM/csci240/masmdocs/ Yes, I do realize the age of v6.1x (the manuals talk at length about 16b segmentation and TSRs among others) yet surprisingly much still applies. Liviu
From: Geoff on 14 Nov 2009 01:49 On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:33:56 -0500, Joseph M. Newcomer <newcomer(a)flounder.com> wrote: >It is surprising how horribly bad the documentation is. I dug around my bookshelves and finally came up with the MASM book I got with my original Windows SDK. (the big blue and white box) Title: Microsoft Macro Assembler 5.1 Programmer's Guide Copyright: 1987 Document number: 410610014-500-R00-0787 467 pages. No bar code, the back has the MS Redmond address and is marked 1287 Part No. 01506 This was my only reference for it for years. You might find a copy of it on amazon.com. The online copies I cited in my other post actually get to the nitty gritty a bit more succinctly in the 6.11 documentation and they are more relevant today.
From: Mihai N. on 14 Nov 2009 01:49
> name DWORD 30 DUP (1) .... > The syntax > of an identifier is apparently a Microsoft Corporate Secret. I would not expect to find this in the masm documents. Isn't this part of the Intel assembly language spec? All the options, and . directives (like .486, .code, .model flat), yes, that would be the assembler. Same for tricks like @@: to automatically generate label names. Anyway, you might have a point with the value of someone who knows assembly. With at bit of luck I might be able to land some well payed job later one, something like the Y2K boom for the Cobol guys :-D -- Mihai Nita [Microsoft MVP, Visual C++] http://www.mihai-nita.net ------------------------------------------ Replace _year_ with _ to get the real email |