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can anyone tell me how should I compile SSE assembly code?

masm which version?

Thanks f0dder,

Wasn't aware of that, all opcodes are intrinsically available in GoAsm so there are no directives.



Version 7 or above I believe, haven't used MASM for a while.

I don't know if there's a way to get it for free, legally. It's included with later versions of visual studio.

GoAsm is very close to MASM in syntax and will compile SSE and SSE2 instructions as well as branch hints for the P4 processor. Also I think that there was an instruction or two in MASM that was not available in SSE because of reserved symbol problems, this is not the case in GoAsm.

http://www.godevtool.com/

Not for the light of heart, there are none of the normal high level constructs like .IF or .WHILE etc... You have to actually code for real ;)

It does have some better features like Unicode and pushed strings etc....

invoke lstrlen, "Hello"

UString DUS "Unicode string",0

It comes with it's own linker, resource compiler and debugger and can be used with RadASM, I have includes for it on my site. If you have MASM modules that you do not wish to translate you can compile them as a static lib and import them directly into a GoAsm program.

You can find examples of GoAsm programs on my website.

If you want to work with the MASM, you can get it form the www.masm32.com
There you can get the MASM32 version 8, and it's free. And it works fine with RadASM.

You're right f0dder. Sorry for the incorrect advice. I did not saw that the assembler is not updated.

So which is the best assembler to work with? What do you recommend for us? Will be the GoAsm package supported well?

Thanks for your advice.

I used the MASM32 package, because it seemed easy to use for me.
I will try GoAsm and fasm too, I saw that there is a plenty of good coding hints on the GoAsm site.

I think masm32v8 has an include file for handling the SSE instructions, but i'm not sure. That's why the uppercase limitations.

I found the XMM registers in the "ml.exe".
I have only the 6.14.8444 version, but it contains the XMM extension.

Thanks.

Dear Donkey,
GoASM can do unicode very good
I think MASM can do Unicode very good too.
By using macro it can handle almost unicode char.
I see many of macros from this board

-Ernest Murphy
-Hutch
...

But any way if don't use macro we can do a little urly code:

;Urly Unicode sample

;nhnpresario



.386

.model flat, stdcall

option casemap:none



include		\masm32\include\windows.inc

include		\masm32\include\kernel32.inc

includelib	\masm32\lib\kernel32.lib

includelib	\masm32\lib\user32.lib



MessageBoxW		proto	:DWORD, :DWORD, :DWORD, :DWORD



.data



	szText 		dw	'H','e','l','l','o',' ','U','n','i','c','o','d','e',0

	szAppName	dw	'T','e','s','t',' ','U','n','i','c','o','d','e',0

	

.data?



.code

start:



	invoke	MessageBoxW, 0, OFFSET szText, OFFSET szAppName, MB_OK

	invoke	ExitProcess, NULL



end start