Thread: DEBUG-MS-DOS- In Assembly Languange

In this forum is there any section for assembly language programming? the one using CMD.. I need help on this language.. i still new on it

Originally Posted by ledow

On a C forum? Not really.

And "cmd" isn't MS-DOS any more and hasn't been for a LONG time. MS-DOS went out with Windows 98 (it was under the hood on Windows ME, but much better hidden). We still refer to "cmd" windows as "DOS boxes" but they aren't. And "debug" was an ancient DOS command that is no longer present in windows even though you used to be able to use it (badly) to help write and debug assembler code (and any other code that ran on DOS).

Also, assembly language programming has little to do with cmd windows, or MS-DOS, it's just another language to write it (all of the software on grc.com is written in hand-coded assembler language, to my knowledge, but are proper Windows programs).

So do you mean assembler programming, or something else?
If so, do you mean targeting MS DOS, or Win32 (or something else)?
If you mean DOS, do you mean you want to learn to program using debug? (I'd advise you not to waste your time).
If you mean Win32, what do you mean by including "debug" in your post? The program (which isn't in Microsoft operating systems any more), or debugging (as a process)?

Getting the right terminology helps you point you in the direction of what you are after. I suspect you just want to learn to write assembly language, which doesn't require DOS, "cmd" or "debug" at all.

Signed,
Someone who used to use DEBUG to write and edit MS-DOS programs back before Windows even existed.

uhm i not so sure.. i think its win32.. since i just followed the instruction in the task.. here the example

1. Type the following simple assembly language program using two addresses to compute arithmetic expressions. Noted that, all arithmetic expressions involved are using hexadecimal. (Use the calculator from MS Windows to check and convert the hexadecimal).

C:\debug <press enter>
- a 0100 <press enter>
mov ax, 1
mov bx, 2
mov cx, 3
add ax, bx
add ax, cx
int 3
<press enter to exit assembly mode>

- u 0100 <to double check the coding is correct>

- r <notice the value in the register AX, BX, CX>

- g <to execute the assembly program>

this assembly language that i mean.. i already searching around still cannt get it..

Originally Posted by ledow

That's MS-DOS debug, alright. For which you won't find any up-to-date articles past about 1998. The program isn't even distributed by Microsoft any more.

But the internal bit (the "mov ax, 1" up to "int 3") is just plain assembly language. Stick it in any assembler and it would understand it. NASM is a good assembler. Try just googling for "x86 assembly language tutorial" or maybe even "nasm assembly tutorial"

You're learning x86 assembly language. The tool you're using is VASTLY outdated and obsolete (I doubt it does a lot of the modern processor instructions, etc.). Ditch MS-DOS and debug and get a better tool (e.g. NASM on any version of windows), and carry on learning x86 assembly language.

Be warned - most of the things you will find about assembly language are likely to be out-of-date too, because it has it's history in things like MS-DOS. But there are modern tutorials if you look around, and there's nothing stopping you writing that kind of thing in a modern Windows IDE, say, Eclipse with the asmplugin (asmplugin | Free Development software downloads at SourceForge.net).

But it's not related to C at all, really, so you'll have to go find yourself an assembly language forum. There's dozens of them. Use google. If you can't find them on Google, assembly language probably isn't for you...

which Eclipse i will prefer? theres alot type of eclipse.. i will trying to find it out the way to code the simple programming in assembly language