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x64 Assembly: strlen Procedure

Use MASM for Visual C++ Express Edition 2005 to compile this procedure.

This 64-bit procedure, strlen_asm_x64, returns the length of a C-string.

TITLE 'extern "C" unsigned long long strlen_asm_x64(const char *string);'

PUBLIC	strlen_asm_x64

_TEXT	SEGMENT
strlen_asm_x64 PROC

	push rdi
	mov  rdi, rcx ; *string
	mov  rcx, 0FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFh
	xor  rax, rax
	cld
	repne scasb
	xor  rcx, 0FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFh
	dec  rcx
	mov  rax, rcx
	pop  rdi

	ret
	
strlen_asm_x64 ENDP
_TEXT	ENDS
END

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