[bug]pre-initialised floating point data

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Chewy509

Joined: 19 Jun 2003
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Location: Bris-vegas, Australia

Chewy509 27 Apr 2006, 03:26

Hi Tomasz,

Noticed this the other day when working on my compiler (which emits code to assembled by fasm).

The following causes fasm to stop with an error (which is correct):

Code:

my_fp0 dt 1.0e10.0

however the following causes fasm to get stuck in a loop and exhaust all free mem:

Code:

my_fp0 dt 1.0e-10.0

fasm will eventually stop gracefully with an out of memory error on the last one. However I expected fasm to stop with the same error as the first?

Tested with fasm 1.65.21 on both Win32 and Linux.

PS. I do consider both to be invalid syntax... just thought fasm's response the 2nd one a bit unusual.

27 Apr 2006, 03:26

Tomasz Grysztar

Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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Location: Kraków, Poland

Tomasz Grysztar 27 Apr 2006, 09:16

Fixed in 1.65.22.

27 Apr 2006, 09:16

Madis731

Joined: 25 Sep 2003
Posts: 2139
Location: Estonia

Madis731 27 Apr 2006, 10:20

I think it has been discussed already, but its hard to find a dot (".") by searching so I'll ask again.
What was the reason for not supporting number formats like:

Code:

floatzero dt .0
floatminushalf dt -.5

Does it make the parsing harder or are there any other points that I missed?

27 Apr 2006, 10:20

revolution
When all else fails, read the source

Joined: 24 Aug 2004
Posts: 20414
Location: In your JS exploiting you and your system

revolution 27 Apr 2006, 11:45

All numbers start with a numbers. All local labels start with a single dot. This is a good thing. Some versions ago (1.4x I think) we could not even have labels .e or .f, much more clear now in the later versions.

27 Apr 2006, 11:45

vid
Verbosity in development

Joined: 05 Sep 2003
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Location: Slovakia

vid 27 Apr 2006, 13:32

yep, i remember myslef reporting that bug several times Wink

27 Apr 2006, 13:32

Chewy509

Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Posts: 297
Location: Bris-vegas, Australia

Chewy509 27 Apr 2006, 22:21

Tomasz Grysztar wrote:

Fixed in 1.65.22.

Thanks

27 Apr 2006, 22:21

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