Tuesday 26 February 2019

Assembly: Convert denary to 7-bit binary



program binary_shifts;

#include( "stdlib.hhf" )


// Phil Gardner

begin binary_shifts;

    // Base 10 number to be converted to 7-bit binary
    mov( 45, ax );

    // Start at leftmost column
    mov( 64, cl );

    stdout.put( nl, "Convert " );
    stdout.puti16( ax );
    stdout.put( " to 7-bit binary:" );
    stdout.put( nl );

    processColumn:
 

        // Determine whether this column fits into number
        // Divides ax by cl
        div( cl );
 
        stdout.put( nl, "Place value in cl " );
        stdout.puti8( cl );
 
        stdout.put( stdio.tab, "quotient in al " );
        stdout.puti8( al );
 
        stdout.put( stdio.tab, "modulo in ah " );
        stdout.puti8( ah );


        // Expand the modulo into ax
        mov( ah, al );
        cbw();


        // Update place value to use for next column
        shr( 1, cl );


        // Decide whether all columns now completed
        cmp( cl, 0 );


    jg processColumn;
 
    finished:
        stdout.put( nl, nl, "Finished.", nl );

end binary_shifts;