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Mino



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Mino 13 Feb 2018, 12:20
Hello: )
I have a somewhat... difficult question:
How to create your own variable data type.
For example, create a type that would only accept ASCII characters from 65 to 90 (so, only letters of the upper-case alphabet).
If, for example, it were to be included '!', in this case, there would be an error, or at least a capacity overrun.
I have absolutely no idea of how to do this, even if it is possible...
So I apologize in advance.
Have a good end of the day!

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Furs



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Furs 13 Feb 2018, 13:27
No there's no way to create a "data type". However, with a macro, you could probably generate the string and check it for "invalid characters", that's not a data type though.
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ProMiNick



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ProMiNick 13 Feb 2018, 13:39
If thou need only data definition:
Code:
macro ucaseA [val] {
   common
     match ,val \{ error \}
     match any,val \{
       virtual at 0
          db val
          repeat $
             load a byte from $-%
             if a>90
                error
             end if
             if a<65
                error
             end if
       end virtual
       db val
}

struc ucaseA [val] {
   common
     match ,val \{ error \}
     match any,val \{
        . db val
          repeat $
             load a byte from .+%
             if a>90
                error
             end if
             if a<65
                error
             end if
}    


Thou should override each instruction with macro that thou want affect thour type:
Code:
macro mov dest, src {
  match type val,src \{
     match =ucaseA,type \\{ 
        virtual at 0
          db val
          repeat $
             load a byte from $-%
             if a>90
                error
             end if
             if a<65
                error
             end if
       end virtual
      mov dest,val
       ?s equ 
    \\}
     
  \}
  match =?s,?s \{ mov dest, src \}
  
}    


I not guarantee that above code work - it is only ideas.
However, in fasm natively supported only untyped sizing of operands. All the rest throw the macros.
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Mino



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Mino 15 Feb 2018, 14:41
Thank you for the answer:)
But I confess that I don't quite understand how to use these macros. If that's not too much to ask, could you give me an example?

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ProMiNick



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ProMiNick 17 Feb 2018, 23:33
All types are illusion that helps stupid programmer to correctly interpret data, (next line makes this stupid things in fasm ON)
Code:
  ;typesON equ 1    

;but w/o that line code stayed usable for rest of community
Code:
  macro enumns name,size,[values] {
  common local n,lst,?s
    n=0
    name#.list equ
  forward
    match a==b,values \{
      name#.list equ name#.list,a
      n=b
      a=b
      ?s equ  \}
    match =?s, ?s \{
      name#.list equ name#.list,values
      values=n \}
    n=n+1
    restore ?s
  common
   match =typesON,typesON \{
     name equ size
     ?s equ  \}
   match =?s, ?s \{
    macro name [defs] \\{
     ;\\forward
        match a,<name#.list \\\{
        if ~defs in a>
          error
        end if \\\}
      \\common
        size defs
    \\}
    struc name [defs] \\{
      \\common
        match =db,size \\\{ label .:byte \\\}
        match =dw,size \\\{ label .:word \\\}
        match =dd,size \\\{ label .:dword \\\}
        match =dq,size \\\{ label .:dqword \\\}
        name defs \\}
   \}
  }

  macro enum name,[values] {
    common local ?s
      match n:s,name \{enumns n,s,values
      ?s equ \}
      match =?s, ?s \{ enumns name,dd,values
      ?s equ \} }

  ; use all above - define our type
  enum weekday:db,monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, sunday

  ;define data of our type
  Myday weekday monday
  Myday2 weekday 1 ; if typesON will be defined here compilation will stop (monday & 1 binary identical, but 1 is out of type weekday)    


that way you can protect data defenitions for unsigned only or signed only values, for only integer, only float, or only string values (or even with chars in lowercase or uppercase only). But all of this will be only illusion that not make affect on output code.
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ProMiNick



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ProMiNick 17 Feb 2018, 23:52
Code:
typesON equ 1
macro ucaseA [val] {
   common local ?s
     match =typesON,typesON \{ ?s equ  \}
     match =?s, ?s \{
       match ,val \\{ error \\}
       match any,val \\{
         virtual at 0
            db val
            repeat $
               load a byte from $-%
               if a>90
                  error
               end if
               if a<65
                  error
               end if
             end repeat
         end virtual \\} \}
         db val
} 

struc ucaseA [val] { 
   common
     label .:byte
     ucaseA val
}

A db "hello world!!!!"
; use macros as usual data definitions your type in place of data definition directive
B ucaseA "HERE ALL UCASE"
C ucaseA "But here is not"      
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DimonSoft 18 Feb 2018, 09:05
Let me ask the topicstarter what his real problem is. The right solution to it might be in the opposite direction, and then there’s not much point in putting hundreds of lines of task-specific macros into the code.

Are you trying to implement something like Pascal/Delphi subrange types?
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Mino



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Mino 18 Feb 2018, 09:28
Thank you for your answers Smile
Yes, if we want, I would like to try to implement custom types from the axioms. But I never programmed in Delphi or Pascal, so maybe I misunderstood.

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DimonSoft 18 Feb 2018, 11:00
Mino wrote:
I would like to try to implement custom types from the axioms. But I never programmed in Delphi or Pascal, so maybe I misunderstood.

Pascal/Delphi have subrange types which are defined as follows:
Code:
type
  TLatinLetter = 'A'..'Z';
  THeadCount = 1..160;

  // Or even better
  TMonth = (mnJan, mnFeb, mnMar, ..., mnDec);
  TSummerMonth = mnJun..mnAug;    

Implementing such stuff in assembly might be ineffective. In HLL compiler would do all the checks necessary. What you can do in assembly is just create a few macros to ensure you define valid data (you already have to check it yourself, so don’t gain much here). How would you prevent something like this?
Code:
        mov     eax, 'Ў'
        mov     [YourTypeVariable], eax    

Except, maybe, redefining every instruction as a macro. And injecting more and more checks into such a macro for every custom type you define.
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