Why calm instructions?

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ttd3v

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ttd3v 22 Sep 2026, 23:06

I read the calm instructions documentation a couple of times, asked AI, and still do not understand its purpose. After some reading in this awesomesauce forum, I noticed it may serve some use I am unaware of. What you guys use calm instructions for?

For me, the most useful is only macro instructions, I use them to simplify pointer resolution. By the way, I also don't understand why use the struct thing fasm has. I have always used symbolic variables.

22 Sep 2026, 23:06

revolution
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revolution 23 Sep 2026, 04:44

CALM if for fasmg, it isn't relevant to fasm.

23 Sep 2026, 04:44

Jessé

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Jessé 24 Sep 2026, 01:22

You'll probably figure out their purpose when you completely figure out that fasmg (which is the backbone of fasm2, by the way, but not related to fasm), is not an assembler by itself.

Anyway, to help you, they are (as far as I know) specialized instructions, that become precompiled when you define them. Which differs from regular macroinstructions.
Take your time, because fasmg is quite unusual, if you compare its statements with other assemblers.

Also, their creation history lies somewhere at this forum, so you can read it, and take your own conclusions about it.

24 Sep 2026, 01:22

ttd3v

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ttd3v 24 Sep 2026, 02:05

Jessé wrote:

You'll probably figure out their purpose when you completely figure out that fasmg (which is the backbone of fasm2, by the way, but not related to fasm), is not an assembler by itself.

Anyway, to help you, they are (as far as I know) specialized instructions, that become precompiled when you define them. Which differs from regular macroinstructions.
Take your time, because fasmg is quite unusual, if you compare its statements with other assemblers.

Also, their creation history lies somewhere at this forum, so you can read it, and take your own conclusions about it.

So is it basically a preprocessor, with instances that are resolved into asm that fasm handle?

24 Sep 2026, 02:05

revolution
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revolution 24 Sep 2026, 05:10

ttd3v wrote:

So is it basically a preprocessor, with instances that are resolved into asm that fasm handle?

fasm is not part of fasmg.

fasmg is a text processor that outputs bytes. CALM is part of fasmg. At no point is fasm used.

24 Sep 2026, 05:10

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