Hi,
Well, I'm in the home stretch on testing bitRakes's Quick sort code & writing a Heap sort. Baby's first steps :P But I've learned a lot in the process. Next step is to write or find a random# generator & then speed test the two... nothing too fancy there.
However, while doing this it became painfully obvious that a, even medium quality, debugger would have sped up the process (surprise). Any recommendations? Maybe it's already under my nose?
Please note: I'm not asking for warez or cracks.
I have to say that the quality of the masm tool kit is quite impressive. almost anything I found elsewhere was already covered by the package & usually better.
Side bar: I didn't like AoA/HLA it takes a very... you don't know jack approach to assembly programming... OK for beginners ('cause it's true) but he needs to shed the 'tude after a you get up & going :( We move from HLL to asm b/c we want to become "empowered" :gag: I just used that word... but that's just my opinion.
While I'm here... the version of Agner's optimization Help file has been updated atleast to July 2000, but you probably already knew that
This message was edited by rafe, on 4/1/2001 1:17:49 PM
This message was edited by rafe, on 4/1/2001 6:12:56 PM
rafe,
here is a free good win32 debugger that i'm using:
it work very well and it has also a quite small size too download.
about random# gen, look this i have found somewhere ..
Random proc uses ebx ecx
;-----------------------------------------------;
; Generate Pseudo Random number (Fast) ;
; ;
; Entry: al = size of random number ;
; ;
; Return: eax = random number, cl bits in size ;
;-----------------------------------------------;
mov cl,al
xor eax,eax
mov bl,byte ptr random_init
and bl,1
Gen_bit: shl eax,1
mov edx,random_init ; Copy seed
shr edx,9
xor bl,dl
shr edx,5
xor bl,dl
bt ebx,1 ; Copy bit 1 to carry flag
rcr random_init,1 ; Rotate seed right 1 bit
setc bl ; Set bl TRUE if carry is set
or al,bl
dec cl
jnz Gen_bit
ret
Random endp
If you are running win2k try WinDdg which is part of microsoft's "Debugging tools for Windows". It's free
rafe,
before OllyDbg, i've try SoftIce but i find OllyDbg better: is smaller, it don't need setup, is freeware and don't modify any autoexec or config.sys
angelo
Martial_Code where do you get WinDbg from?. Im running w2k. Serceh my comp and its not there, not on CD either. I'd like to take a look at it.
asm_happy,
Check out:
http://www.microsoft.com/ddk/debugging/
I used Softice before, but then I found TRW2000. It's great! It looks just like Softice and is using the same syntax and (the thing that I think is best) you dont have to load it before Windows starts. You just start it like any other program and select the exe-file you want to debug!
I think you can find the program at http://www.knlsoft.com
/Tcore
OllyDebug has been updated to V1.03
http://home.t-online.de/home/Ollydbg