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The FPU help in masm32 seems to use 16-bit registers, don't know why... It's probably an old text. So read ebx for bx, esi for si etc. That's what you use in 32-bit.

But what you want to do is not possible even with normal integer instructions. It's not just indirection, its double indirection.

'pV' is actually at . So to get the actual pointer you need the value at (the firts indirect access).. Then you add 4 to that pointer (VECTOR.x) and get the real4 at that point (the second indirect access). So there's no way you can do it with one instruction.

Thomas

The easiest way of finding out if the construction of an instruction is acceptable is to write a small program with such an instruction and

(i) first see if the assembler accepts such syntax,
(ii) use a debugger and see if the result is as expected.

You can usually accomplished the above within a few minutes, which should be a lot faster and definitely more conclusive than researching the subject.

Using the above, you would find out that MASM will not accept the "parameter.item" struc syntax of a parameter in a procedure. However, you can pass the "parameter.item" of a structure to a procedure. I tested the following code which works just fine.

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.data

VECTOR STRUCT 4
x REAL4 ?
y REAL4 ?
VECTOR ENDS

PVECTOR VECTOR <1.1,2.2>

.code
start:
invoke VectorLenSq,PVECTOR.x,PVECTOR.y
invoke ExitProcess,0

VectorLenSq PROC pVx:DWORD, pVy:DWORD

fld pVx ;loads 1.1
fmul pVy ;gives the expected 2.42 result
ret

VectorLenSq endp

end start
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Raymond