[raspinudo]

I figured that is what it was looking for. Thank you for all of the help. One last thing, could explain what dl is? I thought there were only 9 32 bit registers(eax,ebx,ecx,edx)-> General Purpose (esi,edi,eip,esp,ebp)->specialty

[GunnerInc]

Each register is broken down to WORD/HIBYTE, LOWBYTE

[raspinudo]

Thanks a bunch man. In case you were curious to see, here is my finished prgrm. It evaluates a GO board inputted from a text file:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdbool.h>

FILE *inputFilePtr;
char board[7][7];
int blkCount = 0, whtCount = 0;

void usage() {
  printf("usage: one filename argument.\n");
}

void read_board() {
  int i, j;
  for (i=0; i != 7; i++) {
    for (j=0; j != 7; j++) {
      fscanf(inputFilePtr, "%c", &board[i][j]);
    }
    fscanf(inputFilePtr, "\n");
  }
}

bool checkDir(int x, int y, char c){
	if(x != 6 && board[x+1][y] == c) return true;
	else if(y != 6 && board[x][y+1] == c) return true;
	else if(x != 0 && board[x-1][y] == c) return true;
	else if(y != 0 && board[x][y-1] == c) return true;
	else return false;
}

bool containsDots(){
	int i,j;
	for(j = 0; j < 7; j++){
		for(i = 0; i < 7; i++){
			if(board[i][j] == '.') return true;
		}
	}	
	return false;
}

void validityCheck(int i, int j){
	if(board[i][j] == '@' && checkDir(i,j,'#')) board[i][j]='n';
	if(board[i][j] == '#' && checkDir(i,j,'@')) board[i][j]='n';
	if(board[i][j] == '#' && checkDir(i,j,'n') || 
	   board[i][j] == '@' && checkDir(i,j,'n')) board[i][j]='n';	
}

void parse(){
int x,j=0,i=0;
  for(j = 0; j < 7; j++){
   for(i = 0; i < 7; i++){
   validityCheck(i,j);
	  if(board[i][j] == '.'){
   		if(checkDir(i,j,'b') && checkDir(i,j,'w')) board[i][j]='n';
		else if(checkDir(i,j,'n')) board[i][j]='n';
		else if(checkDir(i,j,'b') && !checkDir(i,j,'w')) board[i][j]='@';
		else if(!checkDir(i,j,'b') && checkDir(i,j,'w')) board[i][j]='#';
		else if(checkDir(i,j, '#') && !checkDir(i,j,'b') 
		       && !checkDir(i,j,'w')) board[i][j] = '#'; 	
		else if(checkDir(i,j, '@') && !checkDir(i,j,'b') 
		       && !checkDir(i,j,'w')) board[i][j] = '@';  
	  }
   }
  }	
}

void count() {
  	__asm__("\
      		xorl %eax, %eax\n\
      		xorl %ebx, %ebx\n\
      		xorl %ecx, %ecx\n\
      		xorl %edx, %edx\n\
      	CharCount:\n\
      		movb board(,%ecx,1), %dl\n\
      		cmpb $64, %dl\n\
      		je AddBlk\n\
      		cmpb $35, %dl\n\
      		je AddWht\n\
      	NextChar:\n\
      		incl %ecx\n\
      		cmpl $49, %ecx\n\
      		jne CharCount\n\
      		jmp LoopDone\n\
      	AddBlk:\n\
      		incl %eax\n\
      		jmp NextChar\n\
      	AddWht:\n\
      		incl %ebx\n\
      		jmp NextChar\n\
      	LoopDone:\n\
      		movl %eax, blkCount\n\
      		movl %ebx, whtCount\n\
        ");
}

void print_results() {
  printf("black:%d\nwhite:%d\n", blkCount, whtCount);
}

int main(int argc, char**argv) {
  if (argc != 2) {
    usage();
    return 1;
  }

  inputFilePtr = fopen(argv[1], "r");
  if (inputFilePtr == NULL) {
    printf("Couldn't open file, %s\n", argv[1]);
    return 1;
  }
    
  read_board();
  
  while(containsDots()){
	int i;
	for(i = 0; i < 10; i++) parse();
  }

  count();
  print_results();
  return 0;
}

This post has been edited by raspinudo: 11 April 2012 - 07:20 PM