Add an -L option for additional listing information. Currently
supported is -Le, which emits each line after processing through the
preprocessor, and -Lm, which displays each single-line macro defined
or undefined.
NASM doesn't preserve the names of unused arguments, nor does it have
any technical reason to do so. Instead of adding complexity to save
them, make unnamed parameters official by specifying an empty string
in the argument list.
This has the additional advantage that () is now simply considered a
single empty argument, which means that NASM should now properly
handle things like:
%define myreg() eax
mov edx,myreg()
... similar to how the C preprocessor allows an empty macro argument
list which is distinct from a macro with no arguments whatsoever.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <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>
