Re: What's wrong with this simple Ada w/ assembly code?

[dale@cs.rmit.edu.au (Dale Stanbrough)]

Josh Highley wrote:

"The program I'm writing is a simple text based program intended to run 
 in a DOS window. 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?
   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.  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?"


If you want to devote your program to DOS (or at least learn how to
layer your programs so that you end up with platform specific code)
the best way to handle this is to declare a 2d array that matches the
video memory, and then simply map it to the real video memory via an
address clause.

If you want the code email me, and i'll hunt around and find it.


Dale