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FASM macro for Japheth (Announce)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 04.03.2008, 16:00

> But seriously, FASM is great, ...

I know. FASM is great, DGPJJ is great, ... I'm used to buy everything what's advertised because I'm such a smart guy ...

> but the whole preprocessor/assembler difference and the ultra-powerful macros
> can be a bit mind-boggling.

IIRC I already asked, but cannot remember your response: did you ever write a non-trivial FASM program? Because, IMO, someone who did that should be familiar with the "match" directive.

> So what program was this intended for anyways? (Just curious.)

It's a small tool which creates tiny modules for IMPHLP.LIB (contained in hxdev) by launching an assembler "several" (currently 1500) times. I knew that FASM would be the best tool for that because it includes the very minimum into the COFF output. The imphlp.lib in hxdev v2.14 was created with NASM, size is about 600kb. With FASM, the size will shrink to about 480 kB.

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Complete thread:

• Debug 1.13 - DOS386, 01.03.2008, 03:06 (Announce)
  • Debug 1.13 : bugs and suggestions - DOS386, 01.03.2008, 03:10
    • Debug 1.13 : bugs and suggestions - Japheth, 01.03.2008, 06:15
      • Thanks - rCX, 27.06.2008, 20:29
      • Bug? - rCX, 27.07.2008, 22:54
        • Bug? - ecm, 28.07.2008, 02:22
        • Bug? - Japheth, 28.07.2008, 08:01
    • Debug 1.13 : bugs and suggestions - Rugxulo, 02.03.2008, 00:16
      • Debug 1.13 : bugs and suggestions - Japheth, 02.03.2008, 15:46
        • Debug 1.13 : bugs and suggestions - Japheth, 04.03.2008, 11:42
          • FASM macro for Japheth - Rugxulo, 04.03.2008, 15:19
            • FASM macro for Japheth - Japheth, 04.03.2008, 16:00
              • FASM macro for Japheth - Rugxulo, 04.03.2008, 17:59
                • FASM macro for Japheth - Japheth, 04.03.2008, 20:37
                  • FASM macro for Japheth - Rugxulo, 05.03.2008, 01:18
                    • FASM macro for Japheth - Japheth, 05.03.2008, 11:10
                      • FASM macro for Japheth - Rugxulo, 05.03.2008, 14:24
      • Debug 1.13 : bugs and suggestions - Japheth, 15.01.2009, 06:43
  • Another DEBUG clone - Japheth, 30.07.2008, 11:20
    • Another DEBUG clone - ecm, 30.07.2008, 21:46
      • Another DEBUG clone - Japheth, 31.07.2008, 13:29
        • Another DEBUG clone - ecm, 31.07.2008, 16:21
  • FD Debug 1.14 - Japheth, 13.01.2009, 10:48
    • FD Debug 1.14 - rCX, 14.01.2009, 04:31