#DEFINE Question

[satpro]

I was browsing the GoAsm headers and found this (just a random example):

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#DEFINE CHAR DB

...which is understandable.  Then a few lines later was this:

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%CHAR STRUCT
    DB
ENDS

My question is:  Are these two related, and if so, why is it (or why would it be) necessary to do this?  Not all defined words are like this.


Also, in C source you often see DWORD, BYTE, etc.  Is it possible to create GoAsm definitions such as:

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#DEFINE DWORD DD
#DEFINE WORD DW

...or would it conflict with GoAsm's operation somehow?


Thanks.  I feel like I may have read about this somewhere before but came up empty today (while quickly) looking for it.

[Yuri]

No, they are not related. Those with a percent sign are used for the types of local variables in procedure frames. If you have defined a type somewhere, e.g.

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#define PTR DD

you can't use PTR in a procedure frame. First because simple local types are specified with a single letter (D, Q, etc), and second because such type defines are not recognized by GoAsm for locals, I don't know why. But you can use structures for them. So you can define the pointer type for locals like this:

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%PTR STRUCT
    DD
ENDS

Actually it's already defined that way in the headers.

Yes, you can define WORD and DWORD as well.

[satpro]

Thanks a bunch, Yuri!