Announcing MacPac

[tjhastings]

Hello all,

I have created a macro pack (macpac) for NASM and decided to make it a public project with the hope that others may find the macros useful. All the usual stuff is included: procedures, loops, structs...

Please note thse macros are probably full of bugs. I have only just finished writing them and have not yet used them in real code.

http://code.google.com/p/macpac/

- TJ

[stephenj]

After a brief review, it looks like we've implemented some of the same macros. I haven't looked at it too much yet, but I suspect your implementation is better than my own.

One macro that I tend to implement is the XOR swap trick (I've yet to find a good alternative to xchg). I'd check my macro include, but my main computer (and only amd64 capable machine) is fried, and I won't have an alternative for a few hours.

Great job though!

[tjhastings]

After a brief review, it looks like we've implemented some of the same macros. I haven't looked at it too much yet, but I suspect your implementation is better than my own.

Are the macros you wrote available for download somwhere? I am always interested in seeing how other people implement macros as I often learn something that way.

One macro that I tend to implement is the XOR swap trick (I've yet to find a good alternative to xchg).

There is quite a bit more I could add. Current focus is on writing SWITCH/CASE macros to generate branch tables. Once finished with that focus will shift to writing test programs to make sure all the macros work properly.

I'd check my macro include, but my main computer (and only amd64 capable machine) is fried, and I won't have an alternative for a few hours.

Sorry to hear your computer is down. I do not have a 64-bit machine to test with and so none of the macpac's macros are 64-bit aware. (64-bit support is planned, however.)

Great job though!

Thanks!


- TJ

[stephenj]

I've yet to publish anything (I don't feel I have anything good enough to publish). But I plan on publishing some of it... Someday.

When I write assembly, I tend not to write 32-bit stuff... There's just something about writing code that will be obsolete (from my perspective) within a few years, that is unappealing.

[Troy Martin]

When I write assembly, I tend not to write 32-bit stuff... There's just something about writing code that will be obsolete (from my perspective) within a few years, that is unappealing.

I find real mode to be the kind of thing that lives forever, since all computers support it. So that's why I write in 16-bit assembly.

TJ, your macros look real nifty, good luck with them!