Parameters of SEGMENT directives

[stoo23]

I use ML from Visual Studio, the free community version.
There is a link to download the tools somewhere on the forum.

Yes there was at least One thread with references and links to it here .... somewhere ...
Perhaps we Should provide an easily accessible and findable link to the most appropriate updated version for use with the MASM32 SDK.

Perhaps even Include it, along with any other items that require updating and bringing up to speed as it were in a Contemporary version release of the SDK ???

[Quan]

Also my ML.exe seems to be super outdated compared to yours. And I wasn't aware of a way to update ML.exe, where can I find that?
Microsoft (R) Macro Assembler Version 6.14.8444

I use ML from Visual Studio, the free community version.
There is a link to download the tools somewhere on the forum.

Hi, so I did try out an updated version of ml.exe and it worked. I did have to do some tweakings with the \masm32\include\winextra.inc file as mentioned in this topic. Hopefully that's the only thing I have to do to make it work normally.

Well now that you've satisfied your curiosity I'd really, really recommend just sticking with the regular simplified segment directives.

It's preferable to use the simplified directives like .data and .code

Yea, will do 

[daydreamer]

Also prefer use
.data? If you have big arrays put them there instead otherwise it makes exe bigger
@Stewart might be good suggestions, it only supports SSE,
Especially ml 6.14 bug that makes it take an eternity when using creating big arrays in. Data section
I prefer uasm because it supports all SIMD instructions and don't have that  ml 6.14 bug

[jj2007]

Especially ml 6.14 bug that makes it take an eternity when using creating big arrays

Yeah, that bug is a nuisance, but there is a workaround:

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include \masm32\include\masm32rt.inc

.data?
Buffersize=16777216 ; 16 MB
MyFatArray LABEL byte
  ORG $+Buffersize-1
  db ?
EndofArray db ?

.code
start:
  mov EndofArray, "e"
  mov ecx, Buffersize
  mov al, "x"
  mov edi, offset MyFatArray
  int 3
  rep stosb
  MsgBox 0, "Buffer filled!", "Hi", MB_OK
  exit

end start
Builds in 400 milliseconds with MASM 6.14 (and in 200 milliseconds with UAsm)

[daydreamer]

Especially ml 6.14 bug that makes it take an eternity when using creating big arrays

Yeah, that bug is a nuisance, but there is a workaround:

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include \masm32\include\masm32rt.inc

.data?
Buffersize=16777216 ; 16 MB
MyFatArray LABEL byte
  ORG $+Buffersize-1
  db ?
EndofArray db ?

.code
start:
  mov EndofArray, "e"
  mov ecx, Buffersize
  mov al, "x"
  mov edi, offset MyFatArray
  int 3
  rep stosb
  MsgBox 0, "Buffer filled!", "Hi", MB_OK
  exit

end start
Builds in 400 milliseconds with MASM 6.14 (and in 200 milliseconds with UAsm)

Cool 
But I always thought using uasm on fastest ssd,vs one of my old 4x rewritable DVD mostly the milliseconds output is depending on drive speed?

[jj2007]

Drive speed is irrelevant thanks to the file cache.

[daydreamer]

Drive speed is irrelevant thanks to the file cache.

Big assemble project like masmbasic?
Might suspect disk cache speed and size also been also improved over the years,from very old few gb drive to modern several tb drive

[jj2007]

Big assemble project like masmbasic?

37 obj files with a total of 133kBytes, less than five seconds with UAsm. Now time what it needs to write 133kB to disk...

421 ms for 100*2948888 bytes