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revolution
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revolution 09 Nov 2008, 13:37

baldr wrote:

Code:
        dd      dword 1.0    
give "invalid argument" error?

Yes, because your expansion of "value = dword op" will give "value = dword dword 1.0"

baldr wrote:

revolution,

That label will be typeless, as Tomasz noted.

Yep, that is why I said that it didn't matter for this discussion. I was just noting an alternative for people if that is what they needed for some piece of code.

09 Nov 2008, 13:37

baldr

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baldr 09 Nov 2008, 13:52

revolution,

My question was about inconsistent handling of dword 1.0 in bare fasm, not heavily macro'ed one. Out of context, mea maxima culpa. Wink

09 Nov 2008, 13:52

Tomasz Grysztar

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Tomasz Grysztar 09 Nov 2008, 13:57

Still, what revolution said contains also some truth about bare fasm. Wink

Because DD already contains DWORD cast, so to write "x dd dword 1.0" is a bit like writing "x = dword dword 1.0".

09 Nov 2008, 13:57

wht36

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wht36 09 Nov 2008, 14:01

baldr wrote:

Your macro definition use implicit forward, may explicit common be of some use?

Code:

macro dd [op] { 
  common
    big_endian dd op
}

Is this what you mean? Would there be a difference when there is only one line of instruction?

09 Nov 2008, 14:01

LocoDelAssembly
Your code has a bug

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LocoDelAssembly 09 Nov 2008, 14:43

Seems there was some confusion when I've said ".:", I meant this:

Code:

struc PascalStr [string]{
common
local size
.:
  db size
forward
  db string
common
  size = $ - . - 1
}

string PascalStr "Hello World", " "

Now I also understand what could was my problem, by not defining ".:" the "size = $ - ." throws "Error: Undefined symbol 'string'". Since almost every time I use a struc I use the . label for something I ended up believing that it was always needed to be defined.

Anyway seems that it was recommended to use the dot anyway because of the label type Smile

Code:

struc dd [arg] {common dd arg}
struc dw [arg] {common . dw arg}

a dd 0
b dw 0

mov ax, [a] ; accepted
mov eax, [b] ; Rejected -> "Error: Operand sizes do not match."

09 Nov 2008, 14:43

baldr

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baldr 09 Nov 2008, 15:15

wht36,

The difference is one big_endian macro invokation vs. possibly several of them for each dd macro argument.

Code:

;macro big_endian defined somewhere above
macro dd [op] { common big_endian dd op }
        dd 1.0,2.0,3.0; dd will expand to
;       big_endian dd 1.0,2.0,3.0
macro dd [op] { big_endian dd op }
        dd 1.0,2.0,3.0; dd will expand to
;       big_endian dd 1.0
;       big_endian dd 2.0
;       big_endian dd 3.0

09 Nov 2008, 15:15

wht36

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Posts: 106

wht36 09 Nov 2008, 17:36

baldr wrote:

wht36,

The difference is one big_endian macro invokation vs. possibly several of them for each dd macro argument.

Code:

;macro big_endian defined somewhere above
macro dd [op] { common big_endian dd op }
        dd 1.0,2.0,3.0; dd will expand to
;       big_endian dd 1.0,2.0,3.0
macro dd [op] { big_endian dd op }
        dd 1.0,2.0,3.0; dd will expand to
;       big_endian dd 1.0
;       big_endian dd 2.0
;       big_endian dd 3.0

I see

Thank you very much. It seems better to use common then.

09 Nov 2008, 17:36

baldr

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baldr 09 Nov 2008, 18:22

LocoDelAssembly,

common/forward issue again?

Code:

struc PascalStr [string] {
common local ..size
.       db      ..size
        db      string
..size = $ - . - 1
}

hello_str PascalStr "Hello, World!", 7, 13, 10, " ", 13, 10

looks simpler, at least if you don't want to process each struc parameter in specific way… BTW, it's my inclination to that, or double-dot macro locals are blessing? I mean, they will not break single-dot labels' attachment...

09 Nov 2008, 18:22

LocoDelAssembly
Your code has a bug

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LocoDelAssembly 09 Nov 2008, 18:32

Quote:

I mean, they will not break single-dot labels' attachment...

Assembly layer variables does not affect scope.

Quote:

common/forward issue again?

Perhaps my "db" is a macro/struc that does not accept multiple arguments Wink

But yeah, of course it is easier (and there are some posts of mine that are very near to your implementation).

09 Nov 2008, 18:32

baldr

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Posts: 1651

baldr 09 Nov 2008, 18:55

LocoDelAssembly,

I mean more generic case, when you have to define labels with unique names for each macro invocation.

struc w/o label? Teach me, I need it badly! Wink

09 Nov 2008, 18:55

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