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kiselevd2002



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kiselevd2002 06 May 2021, 11:24
Hi,
I cannot get the subject of if statement. The question is about why I always get the file included whether I set up USE_NO_PAYLOAD to 0 or 1?
Code:
USE_NO_PAYLOAD equ 1
USE_RESOURCE_SEGMENT_FOR_PAYLOAD equ 0
USE_DATA_SEGMENT_FOR_PAYLOAD equ 0

include 'win32ax.inc'
include 'w32_payload_constants.inc'
include 'useful_macros32.inc'

.data
include 'data_segment32.inc'

if USE_NO_PAYLOAD = 0
if USE_RESOURCE_SEGMENT_FOR_PAYLOAD = 0
if USE_DATA_SEGMENT_FOR_PAYLOAD = 0
if FILE_IS_DIFFERENT_SEGMENTS = 1
include 'w32_payload_data.inc'
end if
end if

if defined USE_DATA_SEGMENT_FOR_PAYLOAD = 1
include 'w32_payload_text.inc'
include 'w32_payload_data.inc'
include 'w32_payload_idata.inc'
end if
end if
end if
    
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Tomasz Grysztar



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Tomasz Grysztar 06 May 2021, 11:34
In fasm INCLUDE is a preprocessor's directive, while IF is directive of the assembler. At the time when the source text is assembled, all preprocessing has already been done, so by the time the assembler sees the IF construct, INCLUDE statements have already been unrolled.

If you tried the same with fasmg, which has preprocessor and assembler combined into one, you'd get what you expected here.
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revolution 06 May 2021, 13:34
kiselevd2002: You can use match instead of if to make conditional includes.
Code:
match 0, USE_NO_PAYLOAD {
  include '...'
}    
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kiselevd2002



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kiselevd2002 10 May 2021, 06:17
revolution wrote:
kiselevd2002: You can use match instead of if to make conditional includes.
Code:
match 0, USE_NO_PAYLOAD {
  include '...'
}    


This does not work either... I tried.
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kiselevd2002



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kiselevd2002 10 May 2021, 06:19
Tomasz Grysztar wrote:
In fasm INCLUDE is a preprocessor's directive, while IF is directive of the assembler. At the time when the source text is assembled, all preprocessing has already been done, so by the time the assembler sees the IF construct, INCLUDE statements have already been unrolled.

If you tried the same with fasmg, which has preprocessor and assembler combined into one, you'd get what you expected here.


Please, advise then how should I do in my case? Should I use -d flag in command line? Or what?
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Tomasz Grysztar



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Tomasz Grysztar 10 May 2021, 08:17
kiselevd2002 wrote:
revolution wrote:
kiselevd2002: You can use match instead of if to make conditional includes.
Code:
match 0, USE_NO_PAYLOAD {
  include '...'
}    


This does not work either... I tried.
It's missing "=" to match the literal. It should be:
Code:
match =0, USE_NO_PAYLOAD {
  include '...'
}    
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