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nisargshah95



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nisargshah95 09 Jul 2016, 05:03
I have the following code snippet
Code:
LANG equ 1 ; or 2
stmt1 db "statement 1",0
stmt2 db "statement 2",0
    

I want to use stmt1 or stmt2 depending on whether LANG is set to 1 or 2. I decided to use 'match' for this -
Code:
LANG equ 1
macro stmt
{
        match =1, LANG \\{ db 'stmt1',0 \\}
        match , LANG \\{ db 'stmt2',0 \\}
}    

The above code resides inside another code block. When I compile it, I get
Quote:
macro stmt
error: incomplete macro.

Where am I going wrong?
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l_inc



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l_inc 09 Jul 2016, 17:52
nisargshah95
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The above code resides inside another code block

That's one of the problems. It depends on what exactly is around the provided snippet, but most probably your escaping (the backslashes) is applied incorrectly. In particular the singly nested match-macroblocks should not have double escaping, because the braces will remain singly escaped after the expansion of the macro stmt, and will not be recognized as the beginning and ending of the macroblocks. On the other hand, if you have a macroblock around that snippet then you're missing escaping of the "macro stmt" braces.

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nisargshah95



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nisargshah95 13 Jul 2016, 03:05
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On the other hand, if you have a macroblock around that snippet then you're missing escaping of the "macro stmt" braces.

Yes I do have another macro block around the snippet. Now it works. Thanks! Very Happy
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