Hello! I'm wonder something (which is obvious, maybe) about local symbol and context. The problem is that, I need to make some reference to some local symbol, and after that purge/override the macro that defined it. Does is safe to do? After some test the value don't go away but I didn't go deeper. In FASM1 it's safe cuz there is a kind of global counter which is increment when a new local is defined.
Yes, it is safe. The namespace where these symbols reside is related to the instance of a macro - a specific evaluation of macro where it is called, and this is in no way connected to the definition of the macro (the definition only decides what text of macro is executed when you call it again).
Also in the man I don't really understand a quote:
However, such modified context is not relevant if the value of parameter is inserted in a middle or at the end of a complex identifier, because it is the structure of an identifier that dictates how its later parts are interpreted and only the context for an initial part matters.
It's related to what FASM1 does by prepend ?n to local symbol?
Thanks!
No, what this means is that if you define a name as local, it only matters when you use it as an initial of an identifier:
macro test
local name
name = 1 ; this is local
name.x = 1 ; this is also local
x.name = 1 ; this is global (in the namespace of global "x")
end macro This happens to give results similar to fasm 1, but for different reason. In fasm 1 "." was not a special character, so "x.name" was just a single token and "name" was not seen there. In fasmg "name" is processed there, but the change of context does not matter, because it is not an initial symbol of the identifier.
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14 Oct 2019, 19:00