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Title: basic hla not building.
Post by: hyperion on January 23, 2011, 05:28:51 AM

Hey all

Ive got hla installed at c:\hla
Ive got nmake in there - aswell as nmake installed via visual studio.

Ive got HIDE and Radasm installed correctly.

However - teaching myself assembly and HLA/MASM via the book "The art of assembly" is vexing me..

The following code just wont build.

program intInput;

#include( "stdlib.hhf" )

var
   i8: int8;
   i16: int16;
   i32: int32;

begin intInput;

   // Read integers of varying sizes from user:

   stdout.put("Enter a small integer between -128 and +127: ");
   stdin.geti8();
   mov(al, i8);

   stdout.put("Enter a small integer between -32768 and +32767: ");
   stdin.get.geti16();
   mov(ax, i16);

   stdout.put("Enter a small integer between +/- 2 billion: ");
   stdin.get.geti32();
   mov(eax, i32);

   //Now display input

   stdout.put
   (
      nl,
      "Here are the numbers you entered:". nl, nl,
      "Eight-bit integer: ", i8:12, nl,
      "16-bit integer: ", i16:12, nl,
      "32-bit integer: ", i32:12, nl
   );

end intInput;

The errors I get from trying to build in both HIDE and radasms are that nmake is expected '(' but instead got a '.' at line 19.

Which is the line..
stdin.get.geti16();
It seems its struggling with the 2 "gets" for some reason.

here is a copy of the error from HIDE below..

Build :C:\mycode\assembly\hla code\testhla\testhla.hla
-C:\mycode\assembly\hla code\testhla\testhla.hla
Error in file "C:\mycode\assembly\hla code\testhla\testhla.hla" at line 19 [errid:129196/hlaparse.c]:
syntax error, unexpected '.', expecting '('.
Near: << . >>

Error in file "C:\mycode\assembly\hla code\testhla\testhla.hla" at line 19 [errid:4213/hlaparse.bsn]:
Expected ';', encountered 'geti16'.
Near: << geti16 >>

HLAPARSE assembly failed with 2 errors
Return :2
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Build done
Processes launched : 1
Errors Returned :0

Anyone help? the code is character perfect to that which is in the book..
Scratches head******

Hyp

Title: Re: basic hla not building.
Post by: Sevag.K on January 23, 2011, 07:16:58 AM

there is no such function as stdin.get.geti16() or stdin.get.geti32(). they must be a typos somewhere.

the correct functions are
stdin.geti16();
stdin.geti32();

Title: Re: basic hla not building.
Post by: hyperion on January 24, 2011, 03:32:42 PM

Thanks for the assisst.

Problem solved :)

Now I can get on with studying - with a watchfulll eye for typos ^^

Hyp

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