When utilizing the win32 extended headers and trying to use dword sized structure, that is like:

which is passed to the function SetConsoleCursorPosition with itself not the pointer, it gives an error so that i have to specify the size for it to work correctly:

Would appreciate if Tomasz changes the headers to handle such a case.


P.S. Also, can you, please, Tomasz, add the directive to specify the output filename directly from the source. That would be good, too.

Thanks.

how do you declare "coord"? (after that i can explain you why it can't ho this way)

also altering output file name from source was already discussed. well... it was output file extension...

Of course its:


All i'm saying is that when utilizing standart win32 headers it treats this structure normally, just as any 32bit value (that is takes value of 32 bits at the address specified by label - here the name of a structure variable), without any concern about how this value is treated; and when using extended headers it sees not 32 bits at some address, instead, it sees no size at all, for it says that the size is not specified when:


What exactly do you mean?

so then after preprocessing this becomes something like:

coord:
.X dw ?
.Y dw ?
sizeof.coord = 4

so "coord" itslef is label without any size assigned. it is like C pointer to void, you have to say what size address you want to address.

http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=1820

Why, when i say as a function parameter it already handles it as a dword value at the given address, no matter what size is the data under that address it pushes 32 bits. But when using extended headers it checks for the raw 32/64 bits of data and it won't let me too use structured one, even if it is of size of 32/64 bits.


All I was suggesting is something like just to have the output of a given file name without using console.