The calling convention you've implemented seems to be non-standard (STDCALL for variadic methods). Non-standard is an understatement - it's pretty exotic even for Assembly standards. In fact, in 180+ procedures of that library I've only used it once. More just for fun than out of a real need :D mov...

Imortis wrote: ↑Feb 17, 2022 15:43I think it's clear that the members here aren't afraid of loosing newcomers. Whether that is good or bad is a matter of perspective.

That's an interesting point

Munair wrote: ↑Feb 17, 2022 20:58 Removed the forum address from the link: https://jj2007.eu/Float2AscLib.zip

Thanks. Without the https://, apparently it gets interpreted as a relative path. Good to know.

you can generally expect the data to be physically written to disk Good question. I would expect the following to happen: - program writes to disk - data are now in disk-internal cache - oops, power failure! - disk has some condensators that allow to flush the cache automagically See https://www.qu...

Following discussions in two other threads, Using a static library: linker problems and Calling function does nothing but takes huge amount of time vs called function , I have posted an archive with two libs here . They can be used as follows: #inclib "MasmBasic" #inclib "Shell32"...

I'm not sure whether the Microsoft Linker really doesn't care or, instead implicitly loads the libraries. It can do so, because the MasmBasic library contains according linker directives for the Microsoft Linker, which the GNU Linker probably doesn't understand: Linker Directives ----------------- ...

What FreeBasic definitely doesn't need is arrogant people wanting everything but the kitchen sink readily available without being willing to invest barely any time and resources themselves. With my almost 40 years of experience in BASIC programming ( including the latest one on using a library ), I...

Indeed you were just using the wrong calling convention. Try the code above and it will find the method in your library. There is just a missing reference to "StdOut@4", which is used by your library, but I don't know from which library this should be imported. If you add the missing libr...

You say "unused references" but the linker complains about "undefined". Apparently it cannot find the definitions that match the declared symbols? The linker should ignore symbols that aren't used in the function Float2Asc. Microsoft's link.exe can do that, and the FB doc says -...

' OPT_Obj -Wl --allow-shlib-undefined 'Allow unresolved references in shared libaries #inclib "MasmBasic" Declare Sub Float2Asc lib "MasmBasic" alias "Float2Asc"(byval arg1 as any ptr, byval arg2 as long, byval arg3 as long) Float2Asc(@"%i", 16, 5) Print &quo...

I've produced some str() timings here. It's tricky...

But why it spits out that 4.0069999999999997E+000 string for 4.007 I cannot tell, but it renders it useless. Nobody is perfect :D include \masm32\include\masm32rt.inc .data? buffer db 40 dup(?) .code start: cls invoke FloatToStr, FP8(4.007), offset buffer print offset buffer, 13, 10 invoke FloatToS...

St_W wrote: ↑Feb 16, 2022 0:02you can generally expect the data to be physically written to disk

Good question. I would expect the following to happen:
- program writes to disk
- data are now in disk-internal cache
- oops, power failure!
- disk has some condensators that allow to flush the cache automagically

mixed language programming across different tool sets, maybe not so standard as you need to know both sides Thanks for looking into this. I made a MASM snippet using the absolute minimum - no other libraries involved, no Windows, no console printing, nothing. It works fine, as seen in the debugger....

UNDEF means it's not defined there, no? Right. However, it does appear in the second part of the dumpbin output (why 2 parts?) as "notype": Dump of file FloatToStr.lib File Type: LIBRARY COFF SYMBOL TABLE 000 00000000 DEBUG notype Filename | .file fptoa.asm 002 001220FC ABS notype Static ...