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edemko



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edemko 03 Jan 2010, 12:34
Mostly to Tomasz.
It would be fine to preserve\restore eflags register like this:

Code:
proc LikeThis uses esi edi eflags mm0, param1:dword, param2:dword
endp
    
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Fanael



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Fanael 03 Jan 2010, 14:48
Change prologuedef macro in 'include/macro/proc32.inc' to
Code:
macro prologuedef procname,flag,parmbytes,localbytes,reglist
 { local loc
   loc = (localbytes+3) and (not 3)
   parmbase@proc equ ebp+8
   localbase@proc equ ebp-loc
   if parmbytes | localbytes
    push ebp
    mov ebp,esp
    if localbytes
     sub esp,loc
    end if
   end if
   irps reg, reglist \{ 
    if reg eq eflags
      pushfd
    else
      push reg
    end if \} }    
and epiloguedef in same file to
Code:
macro epiloguedef procname,flag,parmbytes,localbytes,reglist
 { irps reg, reglist \{ reverse 
  if reg eq eflags
    popfd
    else
    pop reg
    end if \}
   if parmbytes | localbytes
    leave
   end if
   if flag and 10000b
    retn
   else
    retn parmbytes
   end if }    
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baldr



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baldr 12 Jan 2010, 17:17
Another approach is to redefine push/pop to accept flags as an operand.
Code:
irp mnem, push,pop {
  macro mnem val \{
    if val eq flags
      mnem#f
    else
      mnem val
    end if
  \}
}    
Extended syntax like push eax ecx edx ebx is just one irps away.
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LocoDelAssembly
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LocoDelAssembly 12 Jan 2010, 20:49
Quote:


Extended syntax like push eax ecx edx ebx is just one irps away.

But not so direct (remember expressions). However, perhaps modeling a simple state machine and accumulating symbols in an equate until it is time to issue a PUSH/POP will do it.
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baldr 12 Jan 2010, 22:05
LocoDelAssembly,

You're right, even FASM itself blunders on that (plain push 2 -1 compiles as push 1 despite explicit space; thank you, preprocessor).
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revolution 12 Jan 2010, 22:21
baldr wrote:
You're right, even FASM itself blunders on that (plain push 2 -1 compiles as push 1 despite explicit space; thank you, preprocessor).
Surely it is not fair to blame the preprocessor for eating the space? Perhaps instead, you should be blaming the evaluator for being greedy? Many people use the space in mathematical expressions for clarity, expecting it to be an operand separator would be hugely inconvenient.
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baldr



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baldr 12 Jan 2010, 23:14
revolution,

I forgot to insert smiley. Anyway, evaluator's greediness has nothing to do with this — look at preprocessed source.

I don't expect space to be an operand separator, FASM does. Wink
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Tomasz Grysztar



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Tomasz Grysztar 13 Jan 2010, 07:47
baldr wrote:
revolution,

I forgot to insert smiley. Anyway, evaluator's greediness has nothing to do with this — look at preprocessed source.

I think you misunderstood him. Evaluator's greediness has very much to do with it. And the fact that the source is pre-tokenized came into design because of some other assumptions, not the opposite way.

baldr wrote:
I don't expect space to be an operand separator, FASM does. Wink

No, it does not. This one is going to be assembled without any spaces:
Code:
push(1)(2)(3)    
Not mentioning the fact, that parser/assembler doesn't even know what a "space" is - it already operates on tokens, not text.
And BTW, this PUSH/POP syntax is not something standard to fasm, it merely simulates a feature of other assembler that is frequently used.
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baldr



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baldr 13 Jan 2010, 08:33
Tomasz Grysztar,

I meant that evaluator has no means to detect that space was there: 2 -1 is indistinguishable from 2-1 after preprocessing. And space is essential part of push/pop specification in manual.

Pretty far off-topic, I think.
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Tomasz Grysztar



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Tomasz Grysztar 13 Jan 2010, 08:46
baldr wrote:
I meant that evaluator has no means to detect that space was there: 2 -1 is indistinguishable from 2-1 after preprocessing.
As I said, this is because the evaluator doesn't need that information, not the other way around.
baldr wrote:
And space is essential part of push/pop specification in manual.

I wouldn't call it "essential". Wink It's used there because the reader is not assumed to understand the process of tokenization yet. I may consider rephrasing it, though.
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