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I am using NASM on Windows, and was following a tutorial.

maxofthree.asm:
ASM
    global  _maxofthree
    
    section .text
_maxofthree:
    mov     eax, [esp+4]
    mov     ecx, [esp+8]
    mov     edx, [esp+12]
    cmp     eax, ecx
    cmovl   eax, ecx
    cmp     eax, edx
    cmovl   eax, edx
    ret


C
#include <stdio.h>

int maxofthree(int, int, int);

int main() {
    printf("%d\n", maxofthree(1, -4, -7));
    return 0;
}


Then i type in:
nasm -f win64 maxofthree.asm

And it works, but when I do:
gcc callmaxofthree.c maxofthree.obj -o test.exe


It hits me with the good old undefined reference, like this:
ccsGyLZS.o:callmaxofthree:(.text+0x1e): undefined reference to `maxofthree'
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status


What I have tried:

I don't know what to try I want to start with Assembly program but it's not going very well.
Posted
Updated 23-Nov-22 13:39pm

1 solution

your subroutine in asm file is _maxofthree, but your C program is looking for maxofthree, with no leading underscore. You should be able to get a clean link if you change the name of one or the other.
 
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CodeSie Programming 23-Nov-22 21:18pm    
Huh, don't know why I didn't try that haha. It said to do it like this in the tutorial so i just followed that, thank you!

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