This is kinda oddball, but I was poking around with the GNU assembler today (I want to be able to at least read the syntax), and was trying to get this little contrived example of mine to work. Namely I just want to go from 0 to 100, printing out numbers all the while. So a few minutes later I come up with this:
# count.s: print the numbers from 0 to 100.
.text
string: .asciz "%d\n"
.globl _main
_main:
movl $0, %eax # The starting point/current value.
movl $100, %ebx # The ending point.
_loop:
# Display the current value.
pushl %eax
pushl $string
call _printf
addl $8, %esp
# Check against the ending value.
cmpl %eax, %ebx
je _end
# Increment the current value.
incl %eax
jmp _loop
_end:
All I get from this is 3 printed over and over again. Like I said, just a little contrived example, so don't worry too much about it, it's not a life or death problem.
(The formatting's a little messed up, but nothing major).
You can't trust what any called procedure does to any of the registers. Either push the registers onto the stack and pop them back off after calling printf or have the increment and end point values held in memory and read/written into registers as you need them.
I hope the following works. I'm assuming that pushl has an equivalant popl and you can push an extra couple of numbers onto the stack.
# count.s: print the numbers from 0 to 100.
.text
string: .asciz "%d\n"
.globl _main
_main:
movl $0, %eax # The starting point/current value.
movl $100, %ebx # The ending point.
_loop:
# Remember your registers.
pushl %eax
pushl %ebx
# Display the current value.
pushl %eax
pushl $string
call _printf
addl $8, %esp
# reinstate registers.
popl %ebx
popl %eax
# Check against the ending value.
cmpl %eax, %ebx
je _end
# Increment the current value.
incl %eax
jmp _loop
_end: