ASM w/ C++ problems

[RobotGymnast]

Alright so I decided to start dabbling in x86 ASM a bit because I'm new to the field (being 15).

My code was simply as follows:

void outputstuff()
{
     WORD i = 0;

     __asm{pop i}
     printf("%u",i);
}
int main(int nArgs,char*sArgs[])
{
     WORD i = 0;
     
     __asm
     {
          jmp looping
          looping:
               cmp i,256
               je breaker
               push i
               call outputstuff
               add i,1
               jmp looping
          breaker:
     }
}

but it doesn't run properly (but compiles fine)
I also tried putting WORD i as an argument:

void outputstuff(WORD i)
...

push i
call outputstuff
....

but that didn't work either. Any idea?

Also, the conditional jump gave me some trouble. It works fine now, but I want to say if i is greater than or equal to 256, quit, but jge just quit right away and jle quit at 129. what's with that?

Thanks