trying to understand why this code does not compile...


It is reporting unexpected characters and this idea was taken straight out of the docs.

Any help would be appreciated.

This is fasm g syntax, and you are probably trying to assemble it with fasm 1. For fasm 1 it should look like:

I was following the documentation, which if new syntax is does not match fasm 1.. the one that is available for download I was just using the fasm one stuff...

Fix the documentation so things match... part of creating tools..

The documentation for fasm 1 is available here: https://flatassembler.net/docs.php?article=manual
Please make sure the documentation you use matches the tool you use. fasm 1 and fasm g are different products.

Trying to keep the syntaxes straight is going to be interesting since there is not keyword list for the macro engine of either. It is evolving and frustrating to get through the documentation. Current idea appears to be part of fasmg but is there a fasm equivalent? Search engines are not helping.

I was enjoying the basic editor that shipped with fasm. So far the editor tools for fasmg are lack luster. Trusty text editors or maybe Notepad++ may have to do..