From: jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Subject: Re: What's wrong with this simple Ada w/ assembly code?
Date: 1999/03/15
Date: 1999-03-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F8nM08.CJ@jvdsys.stuyts.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36ec237f.0@silver.truman.edu
Josh Highley (joshhighley@hotmail.com) wrote:
: The program I'm writing is a simple text based program intended to run
: in a DOS window.
If you are using the NT version of GNAT, it does produce console based
programs by default, but this is _not_ DOS code. To write a DOS program
you need to use a DOS version of GNAT.
: I don't know about you other people, but I'm only a
: sophomore CS major who hasn't had the classes or the time to try writing
: Ada programs for Windows, although I'd like to :) Having said this, can
: I use interrupts?
No, there are _no_ interrupts in Windows.
: I'm using ASM to position the cursor because the other Ada packages
: I've tried aren't very fast at moving the cursor to several different
: areas of the screen quickly.
Well, my NT_Console package is about as fast as the console will go, using
ASM doesn't help since you would still be calling the same slow Win32 API
functions.
: There's also some other things I'd like to
: try with ASM and Ada, if nothing else, just for fun and to see if I
: myself can make it work.
: Would MASM produce the correct 32 bit object code?
No, MASM produces microsoft type object (.obj) files, while GNAT expects a
coff (.o) file. Either use the Ada facilities for inline assembly (see gnat
documentation for info) or write directly for the 'as' assembler.
Be warned though that this assembler uses a completely diffent syntax than
MASM does.
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-03 0:00 What's wrong with this simple Ada w/ assembly code? Josh Highley
1999-03-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Josh Highley
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-05 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-06 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-06 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-07 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-07 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-03-07 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-03-14 0:00 ` Josh Highley
1999-03-14 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Josh Highley
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk [this message]
[not found] ` <36ef2175.4732984@news.pacbell.net>
1999-03-17 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-03-16 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-03-16 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
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