My idea is that Fasm could support a sort of "library" directive. This directive would check whether your main code (ie. your new application) actually uses included procedure code.

For example one could have placed correct procedures for converting 8 bit, 16 bit and 32 bit values into asciiz-string in an external include file. Library -directive would check whether the main code actually uses for instance 16 bit number conversion code. Only those procedures actually used would be included in main source code and the rest would be left unincluded.

The idea is that when one is coding bigger project in assembler you would not need to worry whether you have included correct procedure. The assembler would do this for you and most importly your main code would not include unneeded code.

The main difference to include-directive is that include-directive unconditionally includes all procedures located at external file. This wastes memory when big portions of unused code is compiled together with really used code sections.

Any ideas??

regards,
Mac2004

Your problem can be solved with macros and "if used" directive. For example see Fresh source...

I will have a look at the Fresh code.

regards,
Mac2004