- Document the [LIST] directive
- Add an option -LF to ignore the [LIST] directive
- Fix [LIST -] suppressing output on a following pass
- Minor other documentation fixes
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Start the subchapter on jmp and call syntax summary. Move the far call
syntax paragraph from language chapter to the syntax chapter.
Add a couple of paragraphs about possible syntaxes of the jump/call
instructions.
Signed-off-by: Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com>
Add a split EA subchapter to the syntax chapter end remove it from the
language chapter, leaving a hyperlink to the new location.
Signed-off-by: Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com>
The syntax chapter is supposed to be about concepts or instructions that
either have a lot of different syntaxes or new/odd ones.
Signed-off-by: Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com>
\I without anything in the curly brackets made the "procedure linkage
table" text disappear.
Signed-off-by: Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com>
Make a note about the availability of the cccl wrapper for building
with MSVC using GNU make.
Minor tidying up of the building from source section in general.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Currently, the website links directly to appendix C, D, and E by name.
At some point, change the HTML generation to use the chapter names
rather than numbers.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Convenience preprocessor functions that allows for efficient packing
of binary data in source code.
Move some functions that has previously been local but are more
generally useful into more accessible places.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
It is sometimes just too convenient to be able to convert between
strings and bytes at will. At one point I was considering making
something with the full power of the db (et al) directives, but that
is a much bigger change...
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Older versions of NASM would not try to match unknown %if directives
with a corresponding %endif, resulting in some very odd consequences
when it comes to trying to handle support for multiple NASM versions.
Document the problem.
Reported-by: E. C. Masloch <pushbx@ulukai.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
If an unknown preprocessor directive starting with %if or %elif is
encountered, assume it should be treated as a conditional directive
for the purpose of balancing %if...%endif.
This avoids some really ugly problems when dealing with code that is
intended to work across NASM versions that uses %if directives that
don't yet exist.
Reported-by: E. C. Masloch <pushbx@ulukai.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
The message-generating functions appear to get expanded when they
shouldn't, resulting in errors. Disable them for now and remove them
from the documentation.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Add the %find() and %findi() functions to look for a string in a
list. This is useful with picking apart the contents of the
__?DEFAULT?__ macro, for example.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Create a __?DEFAULT?__ magic macro with the settings of the DEFAULT
directive.
The DEFAULT directive is complex enough that this is best done with a
magic macro.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Making DEFAULT ABS the default for 64-bit mode was a real
mistake. Issue a warning so we can eventually change it.
Support making FS: and GS: references also be REL by default.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
The %exitmacro directive was never documented, apparently...
Reported-by: E. C. Masloch <pushbx@ulukai.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Change 3.0 to 3.00 in all version numbers, since NASM has
traditionally expanded all but the major version number to 2 digits.
Make the language related to __?NASM_HAS_IFDIRECTIVE?__ more
consistent.
Reported-by: E. C. Masloch <pushbx@ulukai.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
There are currently six variations of each conditionals, and there may
be more in the future (e.g. %while). Stop trying to enumerate them all
everywhere.
Add support for index copying in the document processor.
Have pptok.pl auto-generate index metadata for conditional
preprocessor directives.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
It seems to make sense to call this upcoming release NASM 3.0.
Suggested by: Yongjie Sheng <sheng.yongjie@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Along with C and other languages, the current trend is to be able to
probe for features rather than relying on version numbers. This is
motivated in part by the intent of bumping the major version number to
3.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Add the %null(), %note(), %warning(), %error(), and %fatal()
functions. They behave like the corresponding directives, then expands
to nothing.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
