Printing floats with printf in x86 nasm 32-bit

Question

I\'m trying to print out some 32-bit floats using NASM flavored x86 assembly. This is a minimum working example of what I\'m trying to do:

global main
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Answer 1

As Michael pointed, %f in printf expects a double, so your number must be converted into a double just before pushing it on the stack for printf:

global main
extern printf, scanf

section .data
    scan_format: db "%f",0
    print_format: db "Result: %f",0xA,0

section .bss
    result_num: resb 4

section .text
main:
    push result_num
    push scan_format
    call scanf
    add esp, 8

    sub esp,8  ;reserve stack for a double in stack
    mov ebx,result_num
    fld dword [ebx]   ;load float
    fstp qword [esp]  ;store double (8087 does the conversion internally)
    push print_format
    call printf
    add esp, 12
    ret

push qword [result_num_dub] ;ASSEMBLER ERROR HERE

You cannot do 64 bit operations, like pushing 64 bits at a time, in 32 bit mode. This is why I used the sub esp method to reserve stack space. Your second program just needs this:

section .text
main:
    push result_num
    push scan_format
    call scanf
    add esp, 8

    fld dword [result_num]
    fstp qword [result_num_dub]
    push dword [result_num_dub+4]  ;pushes 32 bits (MSB)
    push dword [result_num_dub]    ;pushes 32 bits (LSB)
    push print_format
    call printf
    add esp, 12   ;<-- 12 bytes, not 8.
    ret