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POWhy is MASM crashing on assembly?
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copied!<p>I'm working on a project for class, and the professor wants us to use MASM instead of any other assembler. (I know thats is stupid, talk to him not me.) When I run ML.exe to compile my code, it crashes. Not the program I'm writing, but the assembler itself. What could possibly cause that? It's running for a really long time before it goes, so maybe it's an infinite loop of some sort.</p> <p>Here's my code:</p> <pre><code>.386 .MODEL FLAT PUBLIC compute_b_proc points EQU [ebp + 16] bs EQU [ebp + 12] n EQU [ebp + 10] m EQU [ebp + 8] .CODE compute_b_proc PROC NEAR32 push ebpi mov ebp, esp mov ax, n cmp ax, m je base_case mov ax, m inc ax pushd points push n push m call compute_b_proc push eax fld DWORD PTR [esp + 8] pop eax mov ax, n dec ax pushd points push n push m call compute_b_proc push eax fld DWORD PTR [esp + 4] pop eax fsubp lea eax, points mov ebx, n shr ebx, 3 add eax, ebx fild REAL4 PTR [eax + 4] lea eax, points mov ebx, m shr ebx, 3 add ebx, 4 add eax, ebx fild REAL4 PTR [eax] fsubp fdivp pushd 0 fstp DWORD PTR [eax + 4] pop eax mov esp, ebp pop ebp ret 12 lea eax, points mov ebx, n shl ebx, 3 add eax, ebx mov eax, DWORD PTR[eax] mov esp, ebp pop ebp ret 12 compute_b_proc ENDP END </code></pre> <p>MASM compiles other files fine. The error message is just "ML.exe has stopped working," nothing else. I should note that I'm using MASM version 6.11. It's what the professor provided.</p> <p>It seems to be the floating point instructions that make it crash. I reinstalled MASM, but it's still crashing on everything floating point.</p>

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