The merging of adjacent ' or " strings really does nothing but
introduce gratuitous incompatiblities; drop it.
Allow *some* control characters (BEL BS TAB ESC) in
nasm_unquote_cstr().
The ` state machine can be greatly simplified by treating \0 as just
another character and let it terminate the string in appropriate
contexts, just like `. The only difference with ` is when it occurs
in state st_backslash: you can't escape the null character.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The smacro expansion code was virtually impossible to understand, and
was leading to very strange failures. Clean it up, and do much better
handling of magic macros. This should also allow for recursive
macros, but recursive macros are extremely tricky in that it is very
hard to keep them from recursing forever, unless there is at least one
argument which is never expanded. They are not currently implemented.
Even so, I believe token pasting makes it possible to create infinite
loops; e.g.:
%define foo foo %+
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
In nasm_unquote_cstr(), disallow any control character, not just
NUL. This will matter when allowing quoting symbols.
Merge nasm_unquote() and nasm_unquote_cstr().
Strings can now be concatenated, C style: adjacent quoted strings
(including whitespace-separated) are merged into a single string.
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>
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>
