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All directives which create single-line macros now have %i... variants to define case-insensitive versions. Case insensitive rather sucks, but at least this way it is consistent. Single-line macro parameters can now be evaluated as a number, as done by %assign. To do so, declare a parameter starting with =, for example: %define foo(x,=y) mov [x],macro_array_y ... would evaluate y as a number but leave x as a string. NOTE: it would arguably be better to have this as a per-instance basis, but it is easily handled by having a secondary macro called with the same argument twice. Finally, add a more consistent method for defining "magic" macros, which need to be evaluated at runtime. For now, it is only used by the special macros __FILE__, __LINE__, __BITS__, __PTR__, and __PASS__. __PTR__ is a new macro which evaluates to word, dword or qword matching the value of __BITS__. The magic macro framework, however, provides a natural hook for a future plug-in infrastructure to hook into a scripting language. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
NASM, the Netwide Assembler.
Many many developers all over the net respect NASM for what it is
- a widespread (thus netwide), portable (thus netwide!), very
flexible and mature assembler tool with support for many output
formats (thus netwide!!).
Now we have good news for you: NASM is licensed under the "simplified"
(2-clause) BSD license. This means its development is open to even
wider society of programmers wishing to improve their lovely
assembler.
The NASM project is now situated at SourceForge.net, the most
popular Open Source development site on the Internet.
Visit our website at http://nasm.sourceforge.net/ and our
SourceForge project at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nasm/
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With best regards,
NASM crew.