Assembly Language for Beginners

1.24. STRUCTURES

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>

void main()
{
WORD *t;

t=(WORD *)malloc (16);

GetSystemTime (t);

printf ("%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d\n",

t[0] /* wYear */, t[1] /* wMonth */, t[3] /* wDay */,

t[4] /* wHour */, t[5] /* wMinute */, t[6] /* wSecond */);

free (t);

return;
};

We get:

Listing 1.330: Optimizing MSVC

$SG78594 DB '%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d', 0aH, 00H

_main PROC
push esi
push 16
call _malloc
add esp, 4
mov esi, eax
push esi
call DWORD PTR impGetSystemTime@4
movzx eax, WORD PTR [esi+12]
movzx ecx, WORD PTR [esi+10]
movzx edx, WORD PTR [esi+8]
push eax
movzx eax, WORD PTR [esi+6]
push ecx
movzx ecx, WORD PTR [esi+2]
push edx
movzx edx, WORD PTR [esi]
push eax
push ecx
push edx
push OFFSET $SG78594
call _printf
push esi
call _free
add esp, 32
xor eax, eax
pop esi
ret 0
_main ENDP

Again, we got the code that cannot be distinguished from the previous one.

And again it has to be noted, you haven’t to do this in practice, unless you really know what you are doing.

1.24.3 UNIX: struct tm.

Linux

Let’s take thetmstructure fromtime.hin Linux for example:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>