Currently, NASM always issues as an unknown symbol any symbol declared
EXTERN. This is highly undesirable when using common header files,
as it might cause the linker to pull in a bunch of unnecessary
modules, depending on how smart the linker is.
Add a new REQUIRED directive which behaves like the old EXTERN, for
the use cases which might still need this behavior.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Enough users expect the namespace starting with underscore to be safe
for symbols. Change our private namespace from __foo__ to
__?foo?__. Use %defalias to provide backwards compatiblity (by using
%defalias instead of %define, we handle the case properly where the
user changes the value.)
Add a preprocessor directive:
%aliases off
... to disable all smacro aliases and thereby making the namespace
clean.
Finally, fix infinite recursion when seeing %? or %?? due to
paste_tokens(). If we don't paste anything, the expansion is done.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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>
sectalign on|off is documented to only affect the align/alignb
directives, *not* an explicit sectalign directive. This is fairly
obviously the proper behavior, so make it work accordingly.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Allow the alignb directive to be used in either a progbits or a nobits
section, by suppressing the zeroing warning.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
In order to support Mach-O better, add support for subsections, as
used by Mach-O "subsections_via_symbols". We also want to add
infrastructure to support this by downcalling to the backend to
indicate if a new subsection is needed.
Currently this supports a maximum of 2^14 subsections per section for
Mach-O; this can be addressed by adding a level of indirection (or
cleaning up the handling of sections so we have an actual data
structure.)
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
The ordering of the macro sets ended up changing due to the recent
file reorganization. Instead of forcing the order again, handle
multiple macro sets (rather than just two) in a coherent manner.
macros/macros.pl could use a cleanup of duplicated code, however.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Make the source code easier to understand and keep track of by
organizing it into subdirectories depending on the function.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
