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daluca



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daluca 21 May 2007, 06:11
hello: I would like to request the ability to make left justified comments.

when i fill some structure like WNDCLASS is hard for me to remember all the elements and where do they go,so I have to switch from window to window to see where I should put a style or an offset to a classname.

I have partialy solved this difficulty making a text like:

Code:

wc WNDCLASS \
    \    ;style
  , \    ;lpfnWndProc
  , \    ;cbClsExtra
  , \    ;cbWndExtra
  , \    ;hInstance
  , \    ;hIcon
  , \    ;hCursor
  , \    ;hbrBackground
  , \    ;lpszMenuName
  ,      ;lpszClassName     

    


so now I can see directly in the sorce the names of the fiels.
but when I put some values between the "," and the "\" the coments well...

Code:

 wc WNDCLASS \
    0 \     ;style
  ,WindowProc \    ;lpfnWndProc
  ,0 \    ;cbClsExtra
  ,0 \    ;cbWndExtra
  ,NULL \    ;hInstance
  ,NULL \    ;hIcon
  ,NULL \    ;hCursor
  ,COLOR_BTNFACE+1 \    ;hbrBackground
  ,NULL \    ;lpszMenuName
  ,_class      ;lpszClassName

    


the alignment gets all messed up.. I know that I could use "insert" for not
to push the comments, but with some text like all those WINDOW_STYLES joined with multiples "or" I would have to put all comments way to far to the right and they would be out of sight.
so I Would like to have this feature or maybe a "hack" (like the one that is use to permit multiple instructions in one line)
maybe the colon could be used to mark the end of comment like:

Code:

wc WNDCLASS \
;style         :    0\
;lpfnWndProc   :   ,WindowProc\
;cbClsExtra    :   ,0\
;cbWndExtra    :   ,0\
;hInstance     :   ,NULL\
;hIcon         :   ,NULL\
;hCursor       :   ,NULL\
;hbrBackground :   ,COLOR_BTNFACE+1\
;lpszMenuName  :   ,NULL\
;lpszClassName :   ,_class      

    


here everything looks highlighted like a coment but the idea is that the text from ";" to ":" is highlighted like a comment (and obviously treated as one).

or maybe something familiar like: /* ------------*/ <instructions here>

well I dont know if it is feasible or difficult to implement but this is my request.

thank you.
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DOS386



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DOS386 21 May 2007, 13:46
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or maybe something familiar like: /* ------------*/ <instructions here>
well I dont know if it is feasible or difficult to implement


Agree !!! Rolling Eyes

Actually also intended to ask for this Shocked ... A wish for next FASM version
... besides my " format binary .EXE " request ... "official" label listing
support ... and some improvements in FASMD Smile

/* bla bla junk */ xor eax,eax ; mov eax,0

_________________
Bug Nr.: 12345

Title: Hello World program compiles to 100 KB !!!

Status: Closed: NOT a Bug
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vid
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vid 21 May 2007, 13:58
yeah
Code:
/*
*/    

Code:
;/*
;*/    

Code:
/*;/*
;*/
*/    
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MHajduk



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MHajduk 25 May 2007, 08:37
Why not this:
Code:
; ... comment ... ;    
(semicolon as a sign for begin and the end of comment)Question
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vid
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vid 25 May 2007, 09:17
because it would break already existing apps thats use ";" inside comments freely
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MHajduk



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MHajduk 25 May 2007, 10:15
OK. We can introduce multiline comments in FASM using fix directive:
Code:
_B fix macro _ {
_E fix }    
Set '_B' at the beginning of commented block and '_E' at the end:
Code:
_B
  ...
 commented instructions
      ...
_E    
it would be replaced by definition of macro named '_' and never used. Block of instructions inside this macro is ignored (i.e. cutted off). This construction could be used securely many times. Smile
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vid
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vid 25 May 2007, 10:37
but you cannot include many macro-features inside such "comment". especially "}"
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MHajduk 25 May 2007, 10:57
What about
Code:
_B fix virtual at 0
_E fix end virtual    
Question Smile
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Goplat



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Goplat 25 May 2007, 15:22
That's not really a comment, though - labels and preprocessor commands inside it will still work.
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rugxulo



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rugxulo 29 May 2007, 01:42
Code:
;;
mov eax,0
;;
    


AFAIK, this is what both Octasm and Rosasm (?) both use for multi-line comments. (And I doubt Tomasz will find this a necessary addition.)
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vid
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vid 29 May 2007, 04:58
funny
i lately decided to use double comments (;Wink for in-source documentation (like DoxyGen). They seemed to be natural solution compared to C's /// or /** **/
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rugxulo 29 May 2007, 13:42
Just FYI (corrections welcome):

Code:
Pascal:       (*  *) or {}
C:            /*  */ or //
Ada:          --
assembly:     ;
BASIC:        '
Perl:         #
T3X:          !
.BAT:         REM or ::
HTML:         <!-- -->
Forth:        ( ) or \
Erlang:       %
Snobol:       *
Turbo PL:     >
VIM script:   "
    
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