Referencing Fortran variables

In this section:

• Introduction
• The execution environment
• The CODE/EDOC facility
• Mixing of Intel 32-bit Assembler and Fortran
• Labels
• Referencing Fortran variables
• Literals
• Halfword and byte forms of instructions
• Using the coprocessor
• Instruction prefixes
• Other assembler facilities
• Other machine-level facilities
• Error messages
• 64-bit assembler

Variables are referenced using the following scheme.

• Local dynamic variables are addressed using EBP%.

• Non-local dynamic variables are addressed using EBX%.

• An argument can only be referenced by its address. For example, in order to load the argument L into AX% use:

SUBROUTINE FRED(L)
INTEGER*2 L
CODE
  MOV EAX%,=L ;Get address of L
  MOVH AX%,[EAX%] ;Load halfword
  .
  .

• References to common or external variables are constructed using a full 32-bit address.

These rules mean that local variable references may be indexed by one extra register, and common variables may have two indexing registers if necessary. For example:

INTEGER*4 L(200)
CODE
  MOV EAX%,=8
  MOV L[EAX%],=0 ;This sets L(3) to 0

Variable references may be offset. For example:

CHARACTER*10 FOO
CODE
  MOVB FOO+3,=32 ;Sets FOO(4:4)=' '

Indices can also contain multipliers of 1 (default), 2, 4, or 8. For example:

ADD [EAX%+ECX%*4], =6