pass string as an argument to a function

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Hi,
I am a very beginner to assembly programming and trying to figure out how to pass a string as an argument to a function(sub program) in nasm and then print character by character.

Note: 16 bit assembler, utilizing stacks

could you please help me in this regards.

Posted 27-Mar-13 8:53am

AshakiranBhatter

Updated 27-Mar-13 8:54am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Mar-13 14:58pm

CPU? Memory model? (Flat? segment-offset?) even the concrete assembler product makes some difference. Basically, you just push the address on stack.
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-03-27T09:00:00

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Push the address of the string on stack, that's all. All further detail depend on many factors; please see my comment to the question.

—SA

Posted 27-Mar-13 9:00am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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[no name] 27-Mar-13 15:02pm

ok...sorry i missed them. The cpu: Intel and memory model: flat.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Mar-13 15:11pm

In 16-bit OS? what is that? Never saw such thing (I heard they were available...). So, do you know by yourself how an address is represented? Flat 16-bit? But then it's only 64K of memory -- are you sure? Is it 90286 or something? :-)

Nevertheless, my advice works. In all non-primitive data structures, you just push the address to stack, and the called function should work with this address...
—SA

CPallini 27-Mar-13 16:28pm

"Flat 16-bit? But then it's only 128K of memory"
Ahem.
My 5, anyway.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Mar-13 16:37pm

128K, 64K... hard to imagine, anyway... :-)
Thank you, Carlo...
—SA