i'm trying to get macro names to show up in ollydbg. so when i say

Text "hello"

I see this in debugger

push Output.2023212 | ASCII "Text"
push Output.2232311 | ASCII "hello"
call Output.238483

I'm trying to do that by saying

macro tmacro [params] {
common macro params {
String name,'tmacro ; put into data section with label 'name'
push name
}

MACRO fix tmacro
ENDM fix pop edi }

So now to define my macros I say

MACRO Text string

push string
call writetext

ENDM

But the problem is that ollydbg shows up "tmacro" instead of "Text". I tried writing '#tmacro instead but that doesn't work either, says too many characters on line.

Any ideas?

It is not clear to me what you want.

Do you want to push the address of name of the macro on to the stack so that you can visually see it in Olly?

O think this line is where you have a problem You push the string tmacro so of course it will display tmacro.

hmmm no see what string does is

macro String name,[string] {
local offset
strings#offset db string,0 ; this is placed into data section
name equ strings#offset
}

so when i say

String name,'tmacro

i want it to be replaced with

String name,"Text"

but instead it's being replaced with

String name,"tmacro"

.... so yes, I want the name of the macro to come up in olly. but i don't know how you can put the name of the macro into the macro....

Try something like this: But note that you will need a more complex setup using "match" if you want to support macros without and parameters.

i've changed it to include the name of the macro

macro tmacro name, [params] {

macro name params {
String string,`name
push string
}

MACRO fix tmacro
ENDM fix pop edi }

but now when I say

MACRO tester param
ENDM

fasmpre comes out with

;macro tester param{
; String string,'tester' param
; push string
;
; pop edi}

strange, huh? why is the extra 'param' being put in?

You need a comma

Try to use "match" for a better solution to your problem.

awesome. thanks revolution