Example of Passing Numerics from Basic to MASM by Value (49395)

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Code Example

The following Basic program is BNUMVAL.BAS, which passes two standard numeric types to assembly language by value:

   DECLARE SUB ValInt(BYVAL i%)
   DECLARE SUB ValLong(BYVAL l&)
   i% = ASC("A")
   l& = ASC("B") * 65536 + ASC("C")
   CLS
   CALL ValInt(i%)
   CALL ValLong(l&)
   END
				

The following program is ANUMVAL.ASM, which gets two standard numeric types by value and prints them out:

; The following handy .MODEL MEDIUM,Basic directive is found in MASM
; 5.10 but not in earlier versions:
.MODEL MEDIUM, Basic
.CODE
        PUBLIC ValInt, ValLong
ValInt  PROC
        push bp
        mov bp, sp            ; set stack frame
        mov dx, [bp+6]        ; get integer
        mov ah, 02            ; DOS interrupt to print character
        int 21h
        pop bp
        ret 2
ValInt  ENDP

ValLong PROC
        push bp
        mov bp, sp            ; set stack frame
        mov dx, [bp+6]        ; get first part of long
        mov ah, 02            ; DOS interrupt to print character
        int 21h
        mov dx, [bp+8]        ; get second part of long
        int 21h               ; print it
        pop bp
        ret 4
ValLong ENDP
        END
				

To demonstrate these programs from an .EXE program, compile and link as follows: BNUMVAL.EXE produces the following output: