FASM1: Skipping pieces of macro declaration

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DimonSoft

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Posts: 1228
Location: Belarus

DimonSoft 06 Mar 2021, 18:01

It might be a stupid question but is it possible to skip certain pieces when building a macro declaration?

Say, I have an imaginary macro template that goes along the lines of

Code:

macro define_????? Name*, [Label, Type, Value]
{
  common
    match any , namelist \{ namelist equ namelist, Name \}
    match     , namelist \{ namelist equ Name \}
    label Name
  forward
    Label Type Value
    sizeof. # Label = $ - Label   ; <-- This line
  common
    sizeof. # Name = $ - Name
}

Now I’d like to generate multiple macros with such structure, so I write a factory macro:

Code:

macro factory SmthName*
{
  macro define_ # SmthName Name*, [Label, Type, Value]
  \{
    ...
    ; Macro body goes here with proper escaping
    ...
  \}
}

Finally, I have a symbolic constant (let’s call it CalcSize) and I want the line that calculates sizes of my data pieces (see macro template above) to only appear inside macros if the CalcSize constant equals 1.

I could write it this way:

Code:

macro factory SmthName*
{
  macro define_????? Name*, [Label, Type, Value]
  \{
    ...
    \forward
      Label Type Value
      match =1 , CalcSize
      \\{
        sizeof. # Label = $ - Label   ; <-- This line
      \\}
    \common
    ...
  \}
}

but that would make every macro produced by the “factory” contain this check thus adding a lot of noise to the prepsrc.exe output. What I want is to make produced macros either contain or not contain the calculation depending on the constant value at the moment of their definition.

Is that even possible?

06 Mar 2021, 18:01

Tomasz Grysztar

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Posts: 8359
Location: Kraków, Poland

Tomasz Grysztar 06 Mar 2021, 18:55

You could use a "macro builder" concept, which is a pattern that goes like this:

Code:

macro MacroBuilder.begin definition&
{
        macro MacroBuilder \{ macro definition \\{ \}
}

macro MacroBuilder.line content&
{
        macro MacroBuilder \{ MacroBuilder
                              content \}
}

macro MacroBuilder.end
{
        MacroBuilder
        \}
}

You can use it to build a customized macro by choosing the exact lines that you want to have in the definition. For example:

Code:

MacroBuilder.begin Foo
rept 4 i:0
{
        MacroBuilder.line display `i
}
MacroBuilder.end

builds a macro:

Code:

macro Foo {
        display '0'
        display '1'
        display '2'
        display '3'
}

and you can of course use MATCH to define lines conditionally.

06 Mar 2021, 18:55

DimonSoft

Joined: 03 Mar 2010
Posts: 1228
Location: Belarus

DimonSoft 06 Mar 2021, 19:22

So, that’s just a matter of creating a chain of macro redefinitions each adding its own piece of the expected result, right?

As a side question (and since I still don’t feel being able to dig through the whole FASM source), I wonder what is the effect of multiple macro redefinitions on compiler memory usage? Is it worth purging a macro or restoring a symbolic constant than is no longer needed? This is what was the source of the original question, and three macro definitions seem like a tradeoff that may not be worth paying.

Last edited by DimonSoft on 06 Mar 2021, 19:54; edited 1 time in total

06 Mar 2021, 19:22

revolution
When all else fails, read the source

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Posts: 20448
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revolution 06 Mar 2021, 19:26

You can test the memory usage to confirm, but my testing showed that using purge/restore/restruc used more memory than simply overwriting with a new value/definition and/or just ignoring it for the rest of the source.

06 Mar 2021, 19:26

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