Figured out what was wrong – the print statements in the middle of the program were hosing my memory. Here is the working sort. Thanks for the help everyone! .data aa DWORD 10 DUP(5, 7, 6, 1, 4, 3, 9, 2, 10, 8) count DWORD -1 ; DB 8-bits, DW 16-bit, DWORD 32, WORD 16 … Read more
Don’t use strings in contexts where MASM expects a 16-bit or larger integer. MASM will convert them to integers in a way that reverses the order of characters when stored in memory. Since this is confusing it’s best to avoid this, and only use strings with the DB directive, which works as expected. Don’t use … Read more
The correct format for hex AB is 0ABh. The reason you need to start it with a digit is so the assembler can easily distinguish it from a label or symbol such as ABh. And don’t worry about the fact it has three digits. It doesn’t magically turn into a twelve-bit number because of that, … Read more
MASM is unusual for an assembly language in that is has types. MASM knows because of how you defined the symbol item that is a memory location of type DWORD. When you use it as an operand knows that you (probably) mean that you want the value stored at the address, not the value of … Read more