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Tomasz Grysztar

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Tomasz Grysztar 01 Sep 2015, 10:56

I updated the package to a new version that supports INCLUDE environment variable.

01 Sep 2015, 10:56

shoorick

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shoorick 02 Sep 2015, 19:26

i'm not able to use it...

Code:

[olex@localhost 8048-counter]$ export INCLUDE=~/fasmg/examples/8048
[olex@localhost 8048-counter]$ echo "$INCLUDE"
/home/olex/fasmg/examples/8048
[olex@localhost 8048-counter]$ ls $INCLUDE
8048.asm  8048.bin  8048.inc  8048.wap  bv.inc  make.cmd
[olex@localhost 8048-counter]$ ../../fasmg 8048-counter.asm 8048-counter.bin
flat assembler g  version 0.90.1438379288
8048-counter.asm [2] 
Error: source file not found.
[olex@localhost 8048-counter]$ grep "INCLUDE" 8048-counter.asm
INCLUDE "8048.inc"
[olex@localhost 8048-counter]$

you can see i've set INCLUDE var, check if it is set and wether "8048.inc" can be found via INCLUDE, letter case is matching everywhere, but no way...
setting full path in source lets file to assemble...
same problem with fasmg.exe under wine...

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02 Sep 2015, 19:26

Tomasz Grysztar

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Tomasz Grysztar 03 Sep 2015, 19:29

shoorick wrote:

i'm not able to use it...

Code:

(...)
flat assembler g  version 0.90.1438379288
(...)

This is not the right version, the one I uploaded has a version 0.90.1441104278.

03 Sep 2015, 19:29

shoorick

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shoorick 03 Sep 2015, 21:16

thanks! now it works Wink

i found that file-roller i was using to unpack zip did not overwrite existing files without any notification Smile

03 Sep 2015, 21:16

shoorick

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shoorick 06 Sep 2015, 20:56

I have noticed that multyline implementation of the opcode inside the macros may shift value of "$" placeholder.
In this case the usage of such trivial constructions like this:

Code:

    Jcc $ ; infinite loop waiting for event

becomes not trivial and may lead to inexpective behavior Wink

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06 Sep 2015, 20:56

Tomasz Grysztar

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Tomasz Grysztar 07 Sep 2015, 10:30

It is one of the reasons why I use the "proxy" variables for the instruction arguments in my examples - the value is then evaluated before instruction encoding starts.

As a side note: the primary function of these proxies is to sanitize macro parameters. Let me show this on a sample from the AVR macroinstruction set:

Code:

macro DES? K
        local value
        value = +K
        if value >= 0 & value <= 0x0F
                dw 1011b + value shl 4 + 10010100b shl 8
        else
                err 'value out of range'
        end if
end macro

If there was no "value" proxy and the "K" parameter was used directly in the subsequent expressions, it could lead to incorrect evaluation of condition if some rogue expression was provided as an argument. For example writing "DES 1 & 0" would cause the "if K >= 0 & K <= 0x0F" become "if 1 & 0 >=0 & 0 <= 0x0F" and thus IF block would be entered even though the argument is not even a correct numeric expression. In this case this is harmless, because DW is going to signalize an error anyway, but in some more complex macros this could lead to unexpected behavior and undetected errors. In case when you have a proxy, the rogue expression is going to be detected and signalized as an error at the time the proxy is defined.

07 Sep 2015, 10:30

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revolution 07 Sep 2015, 10:36

Do brackets achieve the same effect?

Code:

if (K) >= 0 & (K) <= 0x0F

I've often used brackets for ensure correct processing order but maybe this is mistaken?

07 Sep 2015, 10:36

Tomasz Grysztar

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Tomasz Grysztar 07 Sep 2015, 10:39

I think you could fool brackets by passing a malformed expression like "1) & (0".

07 Sep 2015, 10:39

shoorick

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shoorick 07 Sep 2015, 18:57

Tomasz Grysztar wrote:

It is one of the reasons why I use the "proxy" variables for the instruction arguments in my examples

thanks! i have to update 8048 support in this manner...

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Treant 08 Sep 2015, 18:40

I propose to add 'union' into tables.inc.
now union can be realized through virtual directive ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit

08 Sep 2015, 18:40

Tomasz Grysztar

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Tomasz Grysztar 08 Sep 2015, 22:10

I think of an 'union' syntax as a HLL concept that does not really fit the assembly language well. It obfuscates the size of the underlying memory area and at a quick peek it can also be easily confused with a sequential data structure. In assembly language, where you need to be much more aware of the structure of your data, the VIRTUAL syntax for the so-called 'union' has an advantage. If you feel the other way, it may be because of your habits from other programming languages - but that is the case with many features of assembly language.

08 Sep 2015, 22:10

Tomasz Grysztar

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Tomasz Grysztar 30 Oct 2015, 18:21

I have updated the package with a small change to LOAD/STORE directives - now when size of loaded/stored data is not explicitly specified, the size associated with the address is used (so if you defined "a dd ?" then "store -1 at a" is going to fill 4 bytes). I think this is a nice feature that could also be applied to fasm 1, but I did not want to break the backward-compatibility there.

30 Oct 2015, 18:21

shoorick

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shoorick 24 Nov 2015, 14:51

Code:

    show "high -1 = ",-1 shr 8

displays:

Code:

high -1 = 0

-- is it correct?

24 Nov 2015, 14:51

l_inc

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l_inc 24 Nov 2015, 15:00

shoorick
The operator shr has higher precedence than the unary + and - . You should use parentheses.

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24 Nov 2015, 15:00

shoorick

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shoorick 24 Nov 2015, 15:06

thanks

parentheses gave me:

Code:

Error: value out of allowed range.

this works:

Code:

((-1) shr 8) and 255

24 Nov 2015, 15:06

l_inc

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l_inc 24 Nov 2015, 15:36

shoorick

Quote:

thanks
parentheses gave me:
Code:
Error: value out of allowed range.    

That's because fasmg loops are incompatible with fasm's rept . The latter is able to work with negative counter values. I suppose the author might consider changing that. I mean extending the allowed range for fasmg, not reducing it for fasm, obviously.

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24 Nov 2015, 15:36

shoorick

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shoorick 01 Dec 2015, 05:43

From time to time I wish to know exact value of a label or numeric variable, calculated while assembling source. As there is no regular listing support, I usually store it somewhere and then look for it in the dump. It's really not handy Wink

It would be not bad to be able to display those values as message. Macro show from fasmg doc works, but it is a trick and still is not handy Wink

I would suggest a feature for this:

label shownum var [, [H][U] ]
flags:
H - hex
U - unsigned

Code:

VV = 0x777
AA shownum VV, HU
display "value = ",`AA,"h"

-- this should output:

Code:

value = 777h

any other more clever keyword can be used instead of shownum

01 Dec 2015, 05:43

Tomasz Grysztar

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Tomasz Grysztar 01 Dec 2015, 09:02

While the "show" macro in the manual is just a simple trick that is there to demonstrate some of the features of fasm g, any of the various macros that have been written for this purpose for fasm 1 could probably be easily converted to fasm g syntax. Or you could just write a new one from scratch and be able to use some of the added features of fasm g:

Code:

struc shownum value,base:10
        local x,sgn,dgt,txt
        x = value
        sgn = 0
        if x < 0
                x = -x
                sgn = 1
        end if
        txt = ''
        while x | ~txt
                dgt = x mod base
                x = x / base
                if dgt < 10
                        dgt = '0' + dgt
                else
                        dgt = 'A' + dgt - 10
                end if
                txt = txt shl 8 + dgt
        end while
        if sgn
                txt = txt shl 8 + '-'
        end if
        . = string txt
end struc

A shownum 1234567890
B shownum 65535, 16
C shownum 3003, 2

display 'A = ',A,13,10
display 'B = ',B,'h',13,10
display 'C = ',C,'b',13,10

D shownum 1 shl 512
display 'D = ',D,13,10

Note about "unsigned": for fasm the numbers are always signed and if you have a negative value, it is assumed to have an endless sequence of "1" bits extending to the left (in manual I defined it to be compatible with 2-adic arithmetic, even though the actual 2-adic numbers are much more than that, but that's a story for another day). Therefore if you want to treat the negative value as unsigned and not get an infinity as a result, you must specify a truncated size you want to work with. For example when you wrote "((-1) shr 8) and 255", you specified that you want to convert signed value to unsigned with the 8-bit size. For different sizes you (obviously) get different results.

01 Dec 2015, 09:02

shoorick

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shoorick 01 Dec 2015, 09:34

thanks a lot!
i thinks this should be enough for me Smile

01 Dec 2015, 09:34

Tomasz Grysztar

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Tomasz Grysztar 02 Dec 2015, 12:31

I played with the macro a bit more and created a variant that displays floating-point decimal numbers. I have no idea if this might become useful for anything in the actual applications (this is something that fasm 1 never had), but for now it allows to test some of the new features.

Code:

struc showfloat value,precision:2
        local x,i,pos,sgn,dgt,txt
        x = value
        x = x * 1e#precision
        sgn = 0
        if x < 0
                x = -x
                sgn = 1 
        end if 
        i = trunc x
        if x - i >= float 1/2
                i = i + 1
        end if
        pos = 0
        txt = ''
        while i | pos <= precision
                dgt = i mod 10
                i = i / 10
                txt = txt shl 8 + '0' + dgt
                pos = pos + 1
                if pos = precision
                        txt = txt shl 8 + '.'
                end if
        end while 
        if sgn 
                txt = txt shl 8 + '-' 
        end if 
        . = string txt 
end struc

f = 1
e = f
repeat 33
        f = f * %
        e = e + 1f/f
end repeat
out showfloat e, 37
display out

02 Dec 2015, 12:31

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