Hi!!

I was wondering if it's possible to pass a STRUCT directly to a procedure? (Instead of a pointer to the struct itself)

Example:



I have seen that in MASM if you define something like the above and call the function passing a struct, it pushes on the stack each element in the struct. Example:



Will generate the following:

push [v.x2]
push [v.x1]
call MyProc


Not sure if there is equivalent in FASM.

Thanks!!!

Why to pass a whole structure if its very much faster to pass a pointer to it?
Anyway, i dont know if its possible. So lets wait the answer

Teehee,

This is the difference between parameter passing by value and by reference. In the former case callee gets private copy of parameter and changes are not reflected back to passed parameter. In the latter case (when pointer to structure is passed), callee can modify passed parameter.


alorent,

FASM's invoke is a macro, not a directive as in MASM. It's functionality can be extended by yourself. Stock macro simply pushds parameters and indirectly calls given function (i.e. first parameter of invoke is dereferenced to obtain function's address: invoke ebx, v will generate pushd v / call [ebx]). Extended include files (e.g. Win32AX.Inc) define pushd macro to augment invoke functionality, for example, with ability to use nested invokes as parameters.

Probably there is a way to implement something like byval parameter qualifier in pushd (like it's done with addr and double) to pass struct parameter by value, this will involve some kind of type information being attached to it.

Anyway, you can decompose struct into fields and pass them individually (does your function need copy of them all?).

ohh, gotcha!

Thanks guys!

I guess that's better to pass just the pointer. I was asking to reuse some code from MASM (in external OBJs)

Thanks!!!