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Re: How to access stack-based data (strings) when SS <> DS ?

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Alexei,

> I'd advise looking into some kind of macro assembly.

Borlands Tasm does support macros.  But alas, they do not measure up to the
inbuild method of calling procedures and its checking of the (ammount and
type of) provided arguments.

> If your assembler can tell you where (in what segment) a variable
> is allocated

Nope.  That "lea dx,[bp-xxxx]" implicitily uses SS as its base. There is no
way to tell by looking at DX itself.

> (assuming it can actually allocate a variable on the stack just like in
> the data segment)

<huh?> You're the second one who doubts that, even though procedure-local
variables are a thing in most any language ...

> and if the assembler can conditionally assemble code based on that,
> then you can eliminate some unnecessary segment manipulation.

I'm not at all sure I can override build-in menemonics to execute a macro
...   Otherwise I would need to add pseudo(?) code around pretty-much
everything.

> Lastly, perhaps you should be using segmented memory

Isn't that what is what started my problem ?  Putting DS into a different
segment than SS ?

> or you could generate code by some means other than the
> assembler and more higher level.

:-)   I like Assembly because it /doesn't/ hide all kinds of stuff from me.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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How to access stack-based data (strings) when SS <>  DS ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2021-12-04 08:56 +0100
  Re: How to access stack-based data (strings) when SS <>  DS ? "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2021-12-04 12:47 +0000
    Re: How to access stack-based data (strings) when SS <>  DS ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2021-12-04 15:57 +0100
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            Re: How to access stack-based data (strings) when SS <>  DS ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2021-12-05 08:56 +0100
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    Re: How to access stack-based data (strings) when SS <> DS ? Mateusz Viste <mateusz@xyz.invalid> - 2021-12-06 09:30 +0100
    Re: How to access stack-based data (strings) when SS <> DS ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2021-12-06 14:33 +0100
      Re: How to access stack-based data (strings) when SS <> DS ? Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2021-12-06 19:01 +0100
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        Re: How to access stack-based data (strings) when SS <> DS ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2021-12-07 10:17 +0100

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