I'm writing a simple subroutine in FASM to print 32-bit unsigned integers to STDOUT. This is what I came up with:
format elf
public uprint
section ".text" executable
uprint:
push ebx
push ecx
push edx
push esi
mov ebx, 10
mov ecx, buf + 11
xor esi, esi
do:
dec ecx
xor edx, edx
div ebx
add dl, 0x30
mov [ecx], dl
inc esi
test eax, 0
jnz do
mov eax, 4
mov ebx, 1
mov edx, esi
int 0x80
pop esi
pop edx
pop ecx
pop ebx
ret
section ".data" writeable
buf rb 11
Then I wrote another program to test whether the above subroutine works properly:
format elf
extrn uprint
public _start
section ".text" executable
_start:
mov eax, 1337
call uprint
mov eax, 4
mov ebx, 1
mov ecx, newline
mov edx, 1
int 0x80
mov eax, 1
xor ebx, ebx
int 0x80
section ".data"
newline db 0x0A
I compiled both these programs to their corresponding object files and linked them to create the executable.
On executing the program however it only displayed 7
instead of 1337
. As it turns out only the last digit of the number is display regardless of the number itself.
This is strange because my uprint
subroutine is correct. In fact if I combine both these programs into a single program then it displays 1337
correctly.
What am I doing wrong?
I found out my mistake. I'm using test eax, 0
which always sets the zero flag. Hence only the first digit is processed. Intead I need to use either test eax, eax
or cmp eax, 0
.