Assuming ebx is the pointer to the array and ecx is the length, doesn't this sum the slots from 1 to ecx (incusive) instead of 0 to ecx-1 (inclusive)?

hahaha, yes! i guess it wasn't as trivial as i thought. that's what i get for trying to be clever — guess i wouldn't have done that well on that exam ;)

The assembly on the test was much larger than the snippet you provided. I wish a kept a copy of the old test so I could just copy and example problem. Honestly though, that wasn't the worst part of the tests. It was the most dangerous though because many of the questions/instructions relied on previously completed questions/instruction to be correct.

So, like if you passed a wrong value to a certain register, then downstream, every problem that used that register would be off.

The tests were often 4 pages front and back with the handwritten assembly, definition matching, word problems, essay responses, etc.. We had like 75 minutes to take the test too. This was all at a public, no-name state university too. I was no MIT student or anything.

Anyway, I'll never forget the first day of class. Our professor said we were to have 4 tests and a final and some labs.

My friend in the class: "If we make a 100 on all 4 tests, do we have to take the final?"

The professor: "Hell, if you make 100 on 4 test, then I will let you write the final."

My friend: "Why? Has no one ever done that before?"

Professor: "No, in fact, in the 20 years I have taught this class, no one has ever scored a 100 on any test."

We all knew we were in for hell after that.

that's awesome! i wish you'd kept a copy too