Define symbolic variable on the command line

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HaHaAnonymous

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HaHaAnonymous 05 Jul 2016, 16:54

I tried to see if fasm reads environment variables, apparently it doesn't. Then I tried to include my variable in my code:

I tried to "fasm" it with the following command: "fasm -d DATE="'2016 01 01'" /tmp/test.asm"

But it returns error: "invalid definition provided."

Is there any way I can insert my variables this way in code?

I was thinking about doing this: "fasm -d DATE="'$(date +'%Y/%m/%d - %H:%M:%S %Z')'" /tmp/test.asm". But it does not work as fasm does not allow spaces (as seen above).

Maybe there is a way I can do this?!

Code:

format ELF executable

entry main

segment readable executable

align 8
main:
         mov            eax,4
         mov            ebx,1
         mov            ecx,str_date
         mov            edx,_str_date
         int            $80
         mov            eax,1
         xor            ebx,ebx
         int            $80
         ret

segment readable

align 8
str_date:                    db DATE,$0A
_str_date = $-str_date

align 8
dq $0000000000000000

segment readable writeable

align 8
data01:                      rb 128
data02:                      dd ?

05 Jul 2016, 16:54

revolution
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revolution 06 Jul 2016, 01:28

When using the command line the spaces need to be "escaped" with a backslash (\)

Code:

fasm -d DATE='2016\ 01\ 01' ... ;DATE = '2016 01 01' including the quotes

06 Jul 2016, 01:28

HaHaAnonymous

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HaHaAnonymous 06 Jul 2016, 05:25

It did not work.

This works: "fasm -d DATE="'201601'" /tmp/test.asm"
This doesn't: "fasm -d DATE="'2016\ 01'" /tmp/test.asm"

Thank you!

06 Jul 2016, 05:25

revolution
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revolution 06 Jul 2016, 05:31

What version of fasm are you using?

Code:

C:\Documents and settings\WeAreTheBorg\Our Documents>type test.asm
format binary
db DATE

C:\Documents and settings\WeAreTheBorg\Our Documents>fasm -d DATE="'2016\ 01'" test.asm
flat assembler  version 1.71.54  (3145344 kilobytes memory)
1 passes, 9 bytes.

C:\Documents and settings\WeAreTheBorg\Our Documents>type test.bin
'2016 01'

06 Jul 2016, 05:31

HaHaAnonymous

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HaHaAnonymous 06 Jul 2016, 16:14

I'm using "flat assembler version 1.71.54", Linux version (no libc)

In my command the "" has no effect, because of bash. The actual command fasm receives is:

Code:

fasm -d DATE='2016\ 01' /tmp/test.asm

06 Jul 2016, 16:14

HaHaAnonymous

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HaHaAnonymous 06 Jul 2016, 18:40

If anyone is interested, I could make it work with this:

Code:

fasm -d DATE=$(date +'%Y/%m/%d - %H:%M:%S %Z' | hexdump -v -e '/1 "0x%02X,"' | head --bytes -1) /tmp/test.asm

It defines the symbol as an array of bytes:

Code:

fasm -d DATE=0x32,0x30,0x31,0x36,0x2F,0x30,0x37,0x2F,0x30,0x36,0x20,0x2D,0x20,0x31,0x35,0x3A,0x33,0x36,0x3A,0x34,0x30,0x20,0x42,0x52,0x54,0x0A /tmp/test.asm

Then, if that was not a bug you can consider this as solved.

Thank you!

06 Jul 2016, 18:40

Furs

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Furs 13 Jul 2016, 17:22

Looks like a bug in Fasm to me. Same thing happens on Windows version if you double quote the entire DATE= argument. In effect, Fasm looks for "next" argument on purpose when a space is encountered.

i.e: fasm -d "DATE='2016\ 01\ 01'" fails.

Without the double quotes, the above would actually be the following arguments:

Code:

fasm
-d
DATE='2016\
01\
01'

Won't work in bash/unux since it's different when treating arguments. Maybe you could use "eval" but probably not.

I use Linux too but Fasm with Wine so still windows syntax. (so I only have one Fasm useable from both Linux and Windows, and VMs, plus I'm more familiar with it and the IDE works fine too)

13 Jul 2016, 17:22

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revolution 14 Jul 2016, 00:39

Furs: fasm.exe does not use the quotes as special characters in the definition of the variable. All those single and double quotes are passed directly to the code unaltered. The space is always a delimiter unless it is escaped.

However it appears as though in Linux sh, bash, or whatever is the shell processor, will alter what the user types into the command line and try to be smart by expanding some things. So in Linux you have to comply with the shell requirements before fasm will see the command line.

14 Jul 2016, 00:39

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