Missing constant definition for INFINITE.

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SeproMan

Joined: 11 Oct 2009
Posts: 71
Location: Belgium

SeproMan 31 May 2025, 21:26

The WaitForSingleObject and WaitForMultipleObjects functions can use the INFINITE argument. I found it is missing from the KERNEL32.INC file (where I would have expected it to reside). Maybe it could be added to the 'General constants' section that for now has but 3 items:

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; General constants

NULL  = 0
TRUE  = 1
FALSE = 0

I see a lot of people using either -1 or else 0xffffffff, instead of writing the much clearer INFINITE. What got me worried is that I found an online list of Windows equates that has INFINITE = 65535.

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31 May 2025, 21:26

AsmGuru62

Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Posts: 1711
Location: Toronto, Canada

AsmGuru62 01 Jun 2025, 01:10

The current .INC files in FASM package are missing quite a bit of stuff from Windows API: structures, constants, etc.
If you search the forum (I think there is even a sticky post somewhere) -- you can find very good .INC files compiled by some good soul.
I once had an idea to make a converter which would load the .H file from Windows SDK package and parse it and create .INC file for FASM.
Well, it never got up to a conclusion.
Would be nice to have a tool like that -- any new SDK stuff could be ported to FASM.

01 Jun 2025, 01:10

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