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ASSEMBLY - ARRAYS

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We have already discussed that the data definition directives to the assembler are used for
allocating storage for variables. The variable could also be initialized with some specific value. The
initialized value could be specified in hexadecimal, decimal or binary form.
For example, we can define a word variable 'months' in either of the following way
MONTHS DW 12
MONTHS DW 0CH
MONTHS DW 0110B

The data definition directives can also be used for defining a one-dimensional array. Let us define
a one-dimensional array of numbers.
NUMBERS DW

34,

45,

56,

67,

75, 89

The above definition declares an array of six words each initialized with the numbers 34, 45, 56,
67, 75, 89. This allocates 2x6 = 12 bytes of consecutive memory space. The symbolic address of
the first number will be NUMBERS and that of the second number will be NUMBERS + 2 and so on.
Let us take up another example. You can define an array named inventory of size 8, and initialize
all the values with zero, as
INVENTORY

DW
DW
DW
DW
DW
DW
DW
DW

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

Which can be abbreviated as


INVENTORY

DW

0, 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0

The TIMES directive can also be used for multiple initializations to the same value. Using TIMES,
the INVENTORY array can be defined as:
INVENTORY TIMES 8 DW 0

Example
The following example demonstrates the above concepts by defining a 3-element array x, which
stores three values: 2, 3 and 4. It adds the values in the array and displays the sum 9
section .text
global _start

;must be declared for linker (ld)

_start:
mov
mov
mov
top:

eax,3
ebx,0
ecx, x

add

add
dec
jnz

;number bytes to be summed


;EBX will store the sum
;ECX will point to the current element to be summed

ebx, [ecx]

ecx,1
eax
top

;move pointer to next element


;decrement counter
;if counter not 0, then loop again

done:
add
mov

ebx, '0'
[sum], ebx ;done, store result in "sum"

display:
mov
mov
mov
mov
int

edx,1
ecx, sum
ebx, 1
eax, 4
0x80

;message length
;message to write
;file descriptor (stdout)
;system call number (sys_write)
;call kernel

mov
int

eax, 1
0x80

;system call number (sys_exit)


;call kernel

section .data
global x
x:
db 2
db 4
db 3
sum:
db

When the above code is compiled and executed, it produces the following result
9

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