Technique for argument count checking in MASM.

[hutch--]

The attached ZIP file is a working example of how to use MACROS to perform argument count checking. Whether or not I could be bothered is another matter but it does work correctly. The macros are easy to replicate from a simple list of API function names with the arg count after them.

For normal statement calls the macro style is as follows.

    CreateWindowEx? MACRO args:VARARG
      test_arg_count 12,"CreateWindowEx?",args
      invoke CreateWindowEx,args
    ENDM


For function format calls the macro style is as follows.

    SendMessage@ MACRO args:VARARG
      .mi test_arg_count 4,"SendMessage@",args : invoke SendMessage,args
      EXITM <rax>
    ENDM


Cute what you can do with a genuine MACRO assembler that is not trying to be a compiler.

[jj2007]

New SDK version?

demo.asm(91) : error A2006:undefined symbol : GdiplusStartup

[Vortex]

Hi Hutch,

Another method is to modify the invoke macro to check the argument count :

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ExitProcess@ = 1
GetCommandLine@ = 0
GetModuleHandle@ = 1
CreateWindowEx@ = 12
DefWindowProc@ = 4
DispatchMessage@ = 1
GetMessage@ = 4
LoadCursor@ = 2
LoadIcon@ = 2
PostQuitMessage@ = 1
RegisterClassEx@ = 1
ShowWindow@ = 2
TranslateMessage@ = 1
UpdateWindow@ = 1
WndProc@ = 4
WinMain@ = 4

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@ArgCount MACRO arglist:VARARG

LOCAL count
count = 0

    FOR arg, <arglist>
        count = count + 1
    ENDM
   
    EXITM %count

ENDM
.
.
invoke MACRO funcname:REQ,args:VARARG

LOCAL paramcount,paramcnt,p,disp,optaddr,stackbytes
.
.
p=@ArgCount(args)

temp TEXTEQU %funcname&@

IF p NE funcname&@

    % echo funcname should take temp parameters.

    .ERR

ENDIF

[hutch--]

Thanks Erol, have it saved where I can find it for when I have enough brain left to digest it.

[jj2007]

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ExitProcess@ = 1
GetCommandLine@ = 0
GetModuleHandle@ = 1
CreateWindowEx@ = 12

One could even add the type of the argument:

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j@ExitProcess equ 3849/58:s1
j@GetCommandLineA equ 3924/58:s
j@GetModuleHandleA equ 4002/58:s1
j@CreateWindowExA equ 12490/130:s111111111111
j@__toascii equ 5638/76:c6
j@__wgetmainargs equ 5643/76:c6
j@VariantTimeToSystemTime equ 8777/89:s39

(from \Masm32\MasmBasic\Res\pt.inc, October 2016, 585,746 bytes, included here)