word rax suggestion,

suggestion for a new feature for fasm Razz

something which would be very useful is if eg

"dword rax" can be a synonym for "eax"
other examples:

"qword al" synonym for "rax"
"dword r10" synonym for "r10d"
"byte r11" synonym for "r11b"
"word cl" synonym for "cx"
" dword r10b" a synonym for "r10d"
"qword r12w" synonym for "r12"

etc, ie a size prefix replaces the size of the following register,

this would be useful because at the moment I often
have to do things like:

Code:

Temp   equ  rcx
Temp_w equ cx
Temp_d equ ecx
Temp_b equ cl
Temp_q equ rcx

mov Temp, [bits]
shl Num, Temp_b

it would be much better if I could do:

Code:

Temp equ rcx

  mov Temp, [bits]
  shl Num, byte Temp

also for macros a macro could have eg:

Code:

macro  register_shift dest*,  size*, bits*
  {
   xchg size dest,  size rdx
   xchg byte bits, cl
   shl size rdx, cl
   xchg byte bits, cl
   xchg size dest, size rdx
   }

   register_shift Temp, dword, Value

(not completely certain the above register shift has no bugs! Sad

)

without such size prefixes such a macro seems unfeasible Crying or Very sad