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Started by FellGleaming, February 05, 2021, 12:44:20 PM

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FellGleaming

Hi, this should be an easy question, but I can't seem to work it out.   I have a macro in which I'm trying to pass a numeric value to be converted into a register name, i.e.


MyMacro MACRO RegNumber
   mov r&RegNumber, 1
ENDM

TestProc PROC
   ...
   MyMacro 8


That works fine, creating the instruction: mov r8, 1.   But it fails when I need to calculate the name off an expression, it fails, i.e:

MyMacro MACRO RegNumber
   mov r&(RegNumber+7), 1
ENDM


I've gotten it to work with a nested-macro approach (see below), but this is cumbersome.  There must be a way to do it within a single step.  Thanks for any help.

; Pre-expand expression before calling main macro
MyMacro1 MACRO RegNumber
   MyMacro2 %(RegNumber+7)
ENDM
MyMacro2 MACRO NewRegNumber
   mov r&NewRegNumber
ENDM



jj2007

include \Masm32\MasmBasic\Res\JBasic.inc
MyMacro MACRO RegNumber
   mov @CatStr(<r>, %(RegNumber+7)), 11111 ; fixed value
ENDM
Assign MACRO RegNumber, value
   mov @CatStr(<r>, %(RegNumber+7)), value
ENDM
Init ; OPT_64 1 ; put 0 for 32 bit, 1 for 64 bit assembly
  PrintLine Chr$("This program was assembled with ", @AsmUsed$(1), " in ", jbit$, "-bit format.")
  MyMacro 2
  Print Str$("The value is %i\n", r9)
  Assign 1, 12345
  Print Str$("The value is %i\n", r8)
EndOfCode


Output:
This program was assembled with ml64 in 64-bit format.
The value is 11111
The value is 12345

FellGleaming