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daluca

Joined: 05 Nov 2005
Posts: 86

daluca 30 Dec 2007, 18:30

Code:


format ms coff

1 passes, 82 bytes.

Code:


format ms coff
section 'data' data readable writeable

1 passes, 82 bytes.

Code:


format ms coff
section 'data' data readable writeable
section 'data' data readable writeable

1 passes, 140 bytes

Code:


format ms coff
section 'data' data readable writeable
section 'data' data readable writeable
section 'data' data readable writeable
section 'data' data readable writeable
section 'data' data readable writeable
section 'data' data readable writeable

1 passes, 372 bytes.

is there any way to make fasm not to generate sections that are empty?
thanks.

30 Dec 2007, 18:30

edfed

Joined: 20 Feb 2006
Posts: 4352
Location: Now

edfed 30 Dec 2007, 18:39

don't code empty sections...

30 Dec 2007, 18:39

daluca

Joined: 05 Nov 2005
Posts: 86

daluca 30 Dec 2007, 18:45

is there any way to make fasm ignore sections that are empty?
thanks.

30 Dec 2007, 18:45

vid
Verbosity in development

Joined: 05 Sep 2003
Posts: 7105
Location: Slovakia

vid 30 Dec 2007, 19:14

Quote:

is there any way to make fasm ignore sections that are empty?
thanks.

I think it would be very easy to add, but there is no reason to add it.

So, your answer is no.

30 Dec 2007, 19:14

Tomasz Grysztar

Joined: 16 Jun 2003
Posts: 8356
Location: Kraków, Poland

Tomasz Grysztar 30 Dec 2007, 19:34

fasm usually takes everything very literally - it assumes that since you wrote it, you meant it (to generate empty section).

However it may be possible to write "section" macro that would do this for you.

30 Dec 2007, 19:34

daluca

Joined: 05 Nov 2005
Posts: 86

daluca 31 Dec 2007, 01:29

thanks: i will try with macros then.

31 Dec 2007, 01:29

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