> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:48:19AM +0300, George Nyoro wrote: ...snip... > At the offending line, if I replace it with je end, the program works. If > I leave it as is, the exit status is 0, showing that the program did not > run even once. The reason I came to understand or diagnose is that the > value of eol is some value greater than 255 while %edi is, for the start > of the program after moving the address to it, less than 255. eol is then > seen as smaller than edi by the value that it overshoots 255 by hence the > program never runs� through the rest of loop. > > Now, my problem is, why? The only part in the book that referenced > anything like this said that only the exit status is allowed to be less > than 256. But why do longs overshoot? How then can I ever compute large > numbers? Unless something is wrong with my code. > > Please help, Much appreciated.
Interesting you noted the numeral 255, as some platforms have a limit of 255/256 for hardware addresses/addressing. "255 (number)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/255_(number) I remember this from my Commodore 64 days. PEEK http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/PEEK -- Roger http://rogerx.freeshell.org/ _______________________________________________ Pgubook-readers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pgubook-readers
