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quiveror

Joined: 20 Jun 2003
Posts: 34

quiveror 04 Jul 2004, 16:56

Code:

format MS COFF
    if ~ defined foo
    extrn foo:dword
 end if
section '.text' code readable executable
 public _demo
 _demo:
        ret

fasm gave error "code cannot be generated" I guess the above compiled fine with older version (1.4x) what am i missing ?

04 Jul 2004, 16:56

vid
Verbosity in development

Joined: 05 Sep 2003
Posts: 7105
Location: Slovakia

vid 04 Jul 2004, 17:12

since 1.51 (i think) "defined" behavior has changed. Now it checks whether symbol is defined *anywhere& in source (not only before usage of "defined". But this way,
if ~dfefined a
a=1 ;define a here
end if
is illogical, because it is somthing like "if a is not defined then a is defined".

check http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=1581

04 Jul 2004, 17:12

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