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mwh

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mwh 16 Dec 2007, 05:02

I would like to defined 3 macros START_INLINE, END_INLINE, and INLINE, that would work as follows:

START_INLINE foo
...assembly code specific to foo...
END_INLINE

would generate:
...generic stuff produced by START_INLINE...
...assembly code specific to foo...
...generic stuff produced by END_INLINE...

INLINE foo

would generate only:
...assembly code specific to foo...

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Mark

16 Dec 2007, 05:02

revolution
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revolution 16 Dec 2007, 06:23

I don't see where in your description you need nesting of macros.

But anyway, have a look at the file 'win32ax.inc' in the fasm windows package. It shows one way to do macro nesting.

Also, I posted this code some time back, it also uses nesting:

Code:

macro nest_includeonce{
    macro includeonce path,[instr]\{\common
              file@include equ path
               match head path tail,files@included\\{file@include equ\\}
             match head path,files@included\\{file@include equ\\}
          match file,file@include\\{
                   files@included equ files@included path
                      nest_includeonce
                    include file
                        purge includeonce
                   irp i,instr\\\{i\\\}
                \\}
  \}
}nest_includeonce
files@included equ x 'macros.inc'

16 Dec 2007, 06:23

mwh

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mwh 16 Dec 2007, 10:01

revolution wrote:

I don't see where in your description you need nesting of macros.

Ok, how would you do it without nesting then?

16 Dec 2007, 10:01

revolution
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revolution 16 Dec 2007, 10:10

mwh wrote:

Ok, how would you do it without nesting then?

Just use a normal macro.

Code:

START_INLINE macro mac_name {
  macro mac_name \{
  ;beginning code goes here
}

END_INLINE macro {
  ;ending code goes here
  \}
}

INLINE equ

START_INLINE foo
...assembly code specific to foo...
END_INLINE

INLINE foo

16 Dec 2007, 10:10

mwh

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mwh 16 Dec 2007, 10:50

I'm not sure I understand, this doesn't seem like it produces the two results I'm looking for.

Also isn't this nesting the macro mac_name inside the macro START_INLINE?

16 Dec 2007, 10:50

revolution
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revolution 16 Dec 2007, 11:35

mwh wrote:

I'm not sure I understand, this doesn't seem like it produces the two results I'm looking for.

Okay, what results are you looking for? An example of produced code would be helpful.

mwh wrote:

Also isn't this nesting the macro mac_name inside the macro START_INLINE?

Nope, nesting is where one macro invokes itself. Or at least that is my understanding of nesting. The code in my last post is merely defining another macro, it is not invoking itself.

16 Dec 2007, 11:35

mwh

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mwh 16 Dec 2007, 11:51

Thanks for persevering with me:

The first result I'm looking for is that when the following appears in my source:

--------------------------------------
START_INLINE foo
...assembly code specific to foo...
END_INLINE
--------------------------------------

it would be substituted with:
--------------------------------------------------
...some assemby code produced by START_INLINE...
...assembly code specific to foo...
...some assembly code produced by END_INLINE...
-------------------------------------------------

The second result is when the following appears in my source:
--------------
INLINE foo
--------------

it would be substituted with only:
--------------------------------------
...assembly code specific to foo...
--------------------------------------

16 Dec 2007, 11:51

revolution
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revolution 16 Dec 2007, 12:06

Try this code

Code:

START_INLINE macro mac_name {
  ;beginning code goes here
  START_INLINE@name equ mac_name
  macro mac_name \{
}

END_INLINE macro {
  \}START_INLINE@name
  restore START_INLINE@name
  ;ending code goes here
}

INLINE equ

All I did was move the start and end code outside the 'foo' macro and auto invoke 'foo' after it is defined.

16 Dec 2007, 12:06

mwh

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mwh 16 Dec 2007, 12:18

START_INLINE macro mac_name {
;beginning code goes here
START_INLINE@name equ mac_name
macro mac_name \{
} <== doesn't compile, gives me an error here

16 Dec 2007, 12:18

revolution
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revolution 16 Dec 2007, 12:42

Okay, since you want it to be given directly

Code:

macro START_INLINE mac_name {
  ;beginning code goes here
  START_INLINE@name equ mac_name
  macro mac_name \{
}
macro END_INLINE {
  match x,START_INLINE@name\{x\}
  restore START_INLINE@name
  ;ending code goes here
}
END_INLINE fix }END_INLINE

INLINE fix

16 Dec 2007, 12:42

vid
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vid 16 Dec 2007, 16:17

but note that using macrofeatures inside START_INLINE - END_INLINE block is tricky, you must escape symbols just like in nested macro.

16 Dec 2007, 16:17

mwh

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mwh 17 Dec 2007, 13:05

revolution wrote:

Okay, since you want it to be given directly

Huh?

Thanks for the code, I'll try it out.

17 Dec 2007, 13:05

mwh

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mwh 17 Dec 2007, 13:09

vid wrote:

but note that using macrofeatures inside START_INLINE - END_INLINE block is tricky, you must escape symbols just like in nested macro.

Perhaps it might be cleaner for me to use an external preprocessor rather than FASM's built-in macroinstructions for this.

17 Dec 2007, 13:09

vid
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vid 17 Dec 2007, 22:51

Quote:

Perhaps it might be cleaner for me to use an external preprocessor rather than FASM's built-in macroinstructions for this.

Perhaps yes. If what you want can't be done with FASM macros using some sane way, using external tool is best option. Do you know some scripting language?

17 Dec 2007, 22:51

mwh

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mwh 18 Dec 2007, 02:00

vid wrote:

Quote:
Perhaps it might be cleaner for me to use an external preprocessor rather than FASM's built-in macroinstructions for this.

Perhaps yes. If what you want can't be done with FASM macros using some sane way, using external tool is best option. Do you know some scripting language?

I usually use AWK for simple filters. Should work fine for this I think.

Cheers

18 Dec 2007, 02:00

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