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Picnic 01 Oct 2007, 17:15
Hi all,
Is there a way on which calling a macro many times does not duplicates the code?

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vid 01 Oct 2007, 17:25
another macro, rept, irp, irps, ...
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Picnic 01 Oct 2007, 18:18
hello vid thanks for the reply,
i was thinking for a macro acts somehow like a procedure.
a macro that expands the assembly code in a specific location and then call to this location if detected multiple calls.
Is this possible?
idea source..sharing some thoughts with a friend assembler

also something more,
is fasm supporting proc...endp ?
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vid 01 Oct 2007, 22:26
thimis: why dont you just use procedure then?
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Picnic 02 Oct 2007, 16:20
ok but can i use 'proc' 'stdcall' in dos 16 bit programming and pass parameters in procedures? is there an example?

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vid 02 Oct 2007, 18:14
as far as i know there are no macros written for DOS procedures. but you don't need macro at all, you just need to understand how procedure work. Try to search forum and google for "stack frame", "stdcall", etc...
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LocoDelAssembly 02 Oct 2007, 20:22
I ported PROC32.inc to 16-bit and posted somewhere on the forum. It was to support only flat mode as far as I can recall and never fully tested.

Anyway, the idea behind a macro that does not duplicates its code is more or less this:

"PROCS.INC"
Code:
theXorParty.counter = 0
macro theXorParty setup
{
if ~setup eq
  theXorParty.proc:
  if theXorParty.counter > 1
    theXorParty.multipleUses = 1
  end if
end if

if (~defined theXorParty.multipleUses & setup eq) | (defined theXorParty.multipleUses & ~setup eq)

;;;;; BODY 
  xor     eax, eax
  xor     ebx, ebx
  xor     ecx, ecx
  xor     edx, edx
;;;;; BODY END
  if ~setup eq
    ret
  end if
else if setup eq
  call    theXorParty.proc
end if

  theXorParty.counter = theXorParty.counter + 1
}    


"MAIN.ASM"
Code:
include "PROCS.INC"
format PE GUI

  theXorParty
  ret

;;;;;;;;; Procedures placement (when needed)

theXorParty 1    


Resulting code:
Code:
00401000 >/$ 31C0           XOR EAX,EAX
00401002  |. 31DB           XOR EBX,EBX
00401004  |. 31C9           XOR ECX,ECX
00401006  |. 31D2           XOR EDX,EDX
00401008  \. C3             RETN    


And with this code
Code:
format PE GUI

  theXorParty
  mov eax, "loco"
  theXorParty
  theXorParty
  ret

;;;;;;;;; Procedures placement (when needed)

theXorParty 1    
You get:
Code:
00401000 >/$ E8 10000000    CALL test.00401015
00401005  |. B8 6C6F636F    MOV EAX,6F636F6C
0040100A  |. E8 06000000    CALL test.00401015
0040100F  |. E8 01000000    CALL test.00401015
00401014  \. C3             RETN
00401015  /$ 31C0           XOR EAX,EAX
00401017  |. 31DB           XOR EBX,EBX
00401019  |. 31C9           XOR ECX,ECX
0040101B  |. 31D2           XOR EDX,EDX
0040101D  \. C3             RETN    


Obviously this is not very handy because there are no macros here that handles the inlining and duplication prevention, you are doing it by yourself for every macrosed procedure. This code shows more or less how the hypothetical macroses would transparently construct your procedures so you only have to write the body, but in the meantime you have to do the transparent part yourself too...
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edfed 02 Oct 2007, 23:40
why do you want a macro
it's simplest to write a procedure and call it
if you don't know if you use the procedure you can erase it and fasm will return you a message of undefined symbol if you need it

it's nasty but it works very well and you don't have to write strange unlike asm code macro

speaking about conditional assembly, there is a full help about it in the fasm user manual
you just have to read it
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Picnic 03 Oct 2007, 17:00
vid & edfed thanks both for your comments, suggestions.
Well, i'm reading a lot of stuff this period including fasm manual.
LocoDelAssembly thanks for this simple and interesting example code.
I think i locate the post for proc16 here
i'll use it and tell you more..

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