[request] Single-dot mixed with double-dot labels in struc

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revolution
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revolution 13 Jul 2010, 06:41

Fails to compile:

Code:

struc foo bar {
      label . at ..table-$
        db bar
}
..table:
lab foo '123'     ;error: undefined symbol 'lab..table'.

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Successful compile:

Code:

struc foo bar {
        label . at table-$
  db bar
}
table:
lab   foo '123'

Last edited by revolution on 13 Jul 2010, 14:09; edited 1 time in total

13 Jul 2010, 06:41

Tomasz Grysztar

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Tomasz Grysztar 13 Jul 2010, 10:38

It is not a bug, it follows exactly the documented behavior - as you can read in section 2.3.4 of the manual, "[struc's] label will be (...) attached at the beginning of every name starting with dot in the contents of macroinstruction".

That's an interesting problem, however, since it clearly would be more useful if preprocessor allowed symbols starting with double dots to pass through and be interpreted by assembler, as this is what programmer might expect.

For now the solution is to tell preprocessor explicitly to pass such symbol through:

Code:

struc foo bar {
        label . at \..table-$
        db bar 
} 
..table: 
lab     foo '123'

However I may consider redefining the "struc" behavior for the double-dotted symbols. Do we have any real-life example of where prepending struc name to the double-dotted symbol is actually useful?

13 Jul 2010, 10:38

revolution
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revolution 13 Jul 2010, 10:55

Tomasz Grysztar wrote:

It is not a bug, it follows exactly the documented behavior - as you can read in section 2.3.4 of the manual, "[struc's] label will be (...) attached at the beginning of every name starting with dot in the contents of macroinstruction".

Yeah I read that before I posted. But I read is wrongly thinking that "name starting with dot" meant "name starting with one dot". Embarassed

I shall downgrade to [request] level.

13 Jul 2010, 10:55

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