Assembly question

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  1. Niro7777777@

    Niro7777777@ New Member

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    I have two different lists

    qlst1 dq 80000, 40000, 123123, 123123
    dlst1 dd 533, 2314, 123, 231

    alst1 dd 4 (?) DUP

    Now I want to divide the qlst by dlst and then save in the alst which is alst1
    How do I do it. qlst1 is a quad so that I cannot put in a register directly.

    mov eax, dlst
    lea ebx, qlst


    mov eax, dword ptr[ebx]+4
    mov alst, eax

    I am lost from here, please help
     
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    Do you remember doing long division at school? For example 56473/27 might be done as:
    Code:
        __2091_
    27 ) 56473
         54
         --
          247
          243
          ---
            43
            27
            --
            16
    
    56473/27=2091 r 16
    
    So one way is to code up this algorithm. Another way is to shift and subtract, e.g.
    56473/27

    part 1:
    27>56473? no: shift left and repeat (should that be > or >=?)
    270>56473? no: shift left and repeat
    2700
    27000
    270000>56473? yes: shift right

    part 2:
    27000>56473? no: subtract

    56473
    27000-
    =====
    29473

    27000>29473? no: subtract (leaves 2473)
    27000>2473? yes: shift right
    2700>473? yes: shift right
    270>2473? no: subtract
    270>2203? no: subtract
    270>1933? no: subtract
    270>1663? no: subtract
    270>1393? no: subtract
    270>1123? no: subtract
    270>853? no: subtract
    270>583? no: subtract
    270>313? no: subtract
    270>43? yes: shift right
    27>43? no: subtract
    27>16? yes: can't shift right any more so this ends the loop.

    This doesn't show where you get the answer (2091) from, but maybe you can figure that bit out?
     

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