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Hi,

I hope that someone here can help.

I have a simple MASM (Microsoft Assembler) program that tries to call _printf, but I can't get it to compile (actually link) successfully under MASM (the one that comes with VS 2008).

Here's the source:

PUBLIC   _main 
EXTRN   _printf:PROC 


.386 
.MODEL FLAT 


.DATA 
message                 db      'Hello, World', 10, 0 


 .CODE 
_main PROC 


        ; display test message string 
        mov              eax, OFFSET message 
        push             eax 
        call    _printf 
        add              esp, 4 
_main ENDP 
        END 

This is what I'm getting when I try to assemble and link it:

[
/OUT:"C:\HelloWorld1\HelloWrd\Debug\HelloWrd.exe" /INCREMENTAL:NO /
MANIFEST /MANIFESTFILE:"Debug\HelloWrd.exe.intermediate.manifest" /
MANIFESTUAC:"level='asInvoker' uiAccess='false'" /DEBUG /PDB:"C:
\HelloWorld1\HelloWrd\Debug\HelloWrd.pdb" /SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE /
DYNAMICBASE:NO kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib
comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib
odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib


".\Debug\HelloWorld.obj"
]
Creating command line "link.exe @c:\HelloWorld1\HelloWrd\Debug
\RSP0000B06722572.rsp /NOLOGO /ERRORREPORT:PROMPT"
Output Window      Assembling...
Assembling: .\HelloWorld.asm
Linking...
HelloWorld.obj : fatal error LNK1190: invalid fixup found, type 0x0002
Results      Build log was saved at "file://c:\HelloWorld1\HelloWrd
\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
HelloWrd - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)

Can anyone tell why this is happening, and how to resolve this
problem?

I've been googling (and trying different things) for days, and can't find a clear explanation of what is causing that "LNK1190: invalid fixup found, type 0x0002" linker error.


Thanks,
Jim

Hi,

I just found this:

http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0797/hood0797.aspx

which explains the Dumpbin output, and mentions "REL32", whereas my Dumpbin output has "REL16".

Could that be why I'm getting the link error, i.e., should the _printf be a REL32? 

If so, what do I have to do in the original .ASM source to get that to be like that?

Thanks,
Jim