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