Hello, I'm new here but have been using fasm for a while. I'm currently trying to assemble GLaBIOS with fasm and fasm displays a strange error, always at the same position in source code, whatever modification I do to it :



Since it's always after 9616 lines, which is quite a lot, I was wondering if this could be related to a limitation of fasm ?

GLaBIOS can be found here : https://github.com/640-KB/GLaBIOS/tree/main/src

GLaBIOS is just one ASM file and assembles fine with MASM and TASM.

fasm doesn't use the TASM or MASM macro format.

The problem is the rept fasm expects to see an opening curly bracket "{" after rept, instead it sees ROR.

And ENDM is not part of the fasm syntax.

You can do this instead.

Oh nuts, I missed that one. Yes, you are totally right. Thank you and sorry for this mistake of mine. I juggle between several assemblers and tend to mix or forget the syntaxes.

Hey there. I've never actually tried building with TASM before, so it's great to hear it assembles fine. I just tried with TASM 2.5 and TASM 4.1 and for me it doesn't seem to like the HIGH OFFSET linker directive and the forward reference to the DNB MACRO in the VID_ATTR declaration. Admittedly the HIGH OFFSET is a bit of a stretch to use since it relies on the linker to handle it (not all versions do). I'll rewrite it to use a simpler assembler directive, which should be cleaner anyway (done ).

Curious - did you ever have any luck with fasm?

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