Q49401: Example of Passing Array of Doubles from BASIC to MASM

Article: Q49401
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 4.00 4.00b 4.50
Operating System(s): MS-DOS
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | B_BasicCom H_MASM S_QuickASM | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 5-SEP-1990

The two programs shown below demonstrate how a Microsoft BASIC program
can pass an array of double-precision variables to assembly language.

This information about interlanguage calling applies to QuickBASIC
versions 4.00, 4.00b, and 4.50 for MS-DOS, to Microsoft BASIC Compiler
versions 6.00 and 6.00b for MS-DOS and MS OS/2, and to Microsoft BASIC
Professional Development System (PDS) versions 7.00 and 7.10 for
MS-DOS and MS OS/2.

For more information about passing other types of parameters between
BASIC and MASM, search in the Software/Data Library for the following
word:

   BAS2MASM

Code Example
------------

The following BASIC program is BDBL.BAS, which passes an uninitialized
array of double precision numbers to an assembly routine that
initializes the array:

   DECLARE SUB FillDbl(BYVAL ASeg AS INTEGER, BYVAL AOff AS INTEGER)

   DIM DblArray(1 TO 5) AS DOUBLE
   CALL FillDbl(VARSEG(DblArray(1)), VARPTR(DblArray(1)))
   FOR i% = 1 TO 5
      PRINT DblArray(i%)
   NEXT
   END

The following program is ADBL.ASM, which initializes an array of
double-precision numbers passed from BASIC:

; The following handy .MODEL MEDIUM,BASIC directive is found in MASM
; 5.10 but not in earlier versions:
.MODEL MEDIUM, BASIC
.DATA
        Dbl1 DQ 123.45           ; initialize data table
        Dbl2 DQ 456.78
        Dbl3 DQ 98765.432
        Dbl4 DQ 12345.678
        Dbl5 DQ 777.888
.CODE
        PUBLIC FillDbl
FillDbl PROC
        push bp
        mov bp, sp               ; set stack frame
        push es                  ; Preserve (push) es, di, si
        push di
        push si
        mov es, [bp+8]           ; segment of array
        mov di, [bp+6]           ; offset of array
        mov si, OFFSET Dbl1      ; get offset of data table
        mov cx, 40               ; length of data in table
        rep movsb                ; copy data table to array
        pop si                   ; Restore (pop) si, di, es
        pop di
        pop es
        pop bp
        ret 4
FillDbl ENDP
        END

To demonstrate these programs from an .EXE program, compile and link
as follows:

   BC BDBL.BAS;
   MASM ADBL.ASM;
   LINK BDBL ATWODBL;

BDBL.EXE produces the following output:

   123.45
   456.78
   98765.432
   12345.678
   777.888

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