should i ENTER ?

[sw337]

 :eek

Please tell me if should use ENTER instruction every where or the
expanded version i.e. push ebp mov   ebp, esp  sub esp, 4
is better ?

Thanks.

[gabor]

Hello!

What different would it make to use the "expanded version"?
Would it be faster? Well, maybe. This could be checked by a simple test app.

ASFAIK masm is not using the ENTER instruction, it uses the equivalent set of instructions instead.
If you use masm's invoke method you don't have to bother with entering a procedure and creating the local stack.

Greets, Gábor

[raymond]

If you use masm's invoke method you don't have to bother with entering a procedure and creating the local stack.

MASM's invoke is a "macro" strictly designed to push the given parameters on the stack and issuing the "call" to a procedure. It has NOTHING to do with any of the called procedures themselves.

[gabor]

Hi!

That's right what raymond wrote, I made a mistake. About local variables there is the LOCAL keyword. The point I wanted to tell was that according to my experiences masm's possibilities make local variables to handle with ease.

Greets, Gábor