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killasmurf86

Joined: 29 Sep 2010
Posts: 36

killasmurf86 31 Oct 2010, 12:41

I suppose there is nothing that can be something similar to sizeof function...
in fasm this could be used to get size in bytes of data, or structure....
Yes, I know about $-some_date method, but in some cases it won't work....

sizeof macro could be useful, for other macros
For example

Code:

sizeof(eax) => 4

some_data dw 10
sizeof(some_data) => 2

sizeof(name of structure) could return size of structure :D

This could be relatively simple to implement, since fasm remembers size of declared data

Well at least right now this would be very useful for me as I'm porting few marcos from C to fasm (I need this for University)

The problem is, that if I create generic Include file that would be used by others, I can't expect to have data_size = $-data for every single variable/structure in app

also sizeof(register), while it's a common knowledge, it could allow programmer to write quite powerful macros (I think)

Good/bad idea? What do you think....

31 Oct 2010, 12:41

revolution
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revolution 31 Oct 2010, 13:47

Code:

struc dw [arg] {
 common
 . dw arg
 sizeof.#. = $-.
}
sizeof.eax = 4

some_data1 dw 10
some_data2 dw 10,20,30,40
display sizeof.some_data1+'0',',',sizeof.some_data2+'0'

31 Oct 2010, 13:47

killasmurf86

Joined: 29 Sep 2010
Posts: 36

killasmurf86 31 Oct 2010, 14:42

revolution wrote:

Code:

struc dw [arg] {
 common
 . dw arg
 sizeof.#. = $-.
}
sizeof.eax = 4

some_data1 dw 10
some_data2 dw 10,20,30,40
display sizeof.some_data1+'0',',',sizeof.some_data2+'0'

Very, very impressive cheat
Thanks

31 Oct 2010, 14:42

baldr

Joined: 19 Mar 2008
Posts: 1651

baldr 31 Oct 2010, 16:13

killasmurf86,

There is a generic one:

Code:

struc sized [args] {
common . args
sizeof.#. = $ - .
}

Usage is simple:

Code:

prompt sized db "Enter something: "
prefix sized db "You've entered: "
input sized rb 100

This code gets sizeof.prompt, sizeof.prefix and sizeof.input properly defined. I call that kind of macro prefix-macro.

31 Oct 2010, 16:13

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