hey all.
i super newb in macro assembler
and i would like your help
if it is possible to write macros for complicated expressions in HLA/FASM
for example, macro that can convert the following to HLA/FASM:
a = mid(a,1+sin(a+b*2),10)


(note: mid and sin are predefined functions)

i ask that because i saw some compilers that use this concept
(purebasic, masmBasic for example),
but i don't know how and if macros can handle complicated expressions.


thanks in advanced.

someone ?

i think the short answer is no.
but it is very possible to create an expression evaluator.

maybe you can look in the fasm source code to see how it's implemented by TG.

I think the longer answer is that you probably can. But it would be a lot of work.

fasm isn't really meant to be an HLL compiler, so such things like arbitrary expression evaluation aren't very easy to implement. It kind of goes against the basic nature of what assemblers do.

only the primitives one

If you make an "advanced" assembler, then it isn't an assembler any more. It becomes an HLL.

If that is what you want, then by all means make one. But you will confuse everyone if you try to call is an assembler.

You're not the first to have such a desire:
https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=17343

The user of that post also went by other handles and has similar work on this board.