Article ID: 57363
Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual Basic for MS-DOS
- Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.0
- Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.1
This article was previously published under Q57363
SUMMARY
The example below demonstrates how to pass a variable-length string from a compiled Basic program to a MASM procedure.
This information is also included with the Help file provided with the Standard and Professional Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic for MS-DOS, version 1.0.
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Basic to MASM Example
For Visual Basic for MS-DOS, compile and link as follows:
Compile: BC /d basmasm.bas;
MASM masmtest;
Link: LINK basmasm.obj masmtest.obj,,,VBDRT10E.lib;
For Basic PDS for MS-DOS and MS OS/2, compile and link as follows:
Compile: BC /Fs/d basmasm.bas;
MASM masmtest;
Link: LINK basmasm+masmtest,,,BRT70EFR;
REM ==Basic to MASM code===
DEFINT A-Z
DECLARE SUB printmessage (BYVAL segm, BYVAL offs)
CLS
a$ = "Assembly test successful" + "$"
CALL printmessage(SSEG(a$), SADD(a$))
LOCATE 10, 10
PRINT "Back from assembly"
END
; MASM code here
.Model Medium,basic
.stack
.code
public printmessage
printmessage proc uses ds,segm,offs
mov ax,segm
mov ds,ax
mov dx,offs
mov ah,9
int 21h
ret
printmessage endp
end
Additional query words: VBmsdos BasicCom 1.00 7.00 7.10
Keywords: KB57363
