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[MASM32] Basic Question
« on: December 25, 2005, 01:55:14 pm »
Hm, I posted this on the vL site, and then I realized, what better site to ask an assembly question than this! But, practically thinking, I want the fastest answer  ;D. So here's my question/story:

Today a friend told me that mASM32 is not "pure assembly." He says this because it has constructs like print chr$("..."), etc. Is this true, and if so, does mASM32 have all the functionality of "pure assembly"? Also, what do you guys use?
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Re: [MASM32] Basic Question
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2005, 03:58:50 pm »
It's most likely an assembler with some higher helper instructions, they are unrolled into simpler assembly when they are assembled then converted into machine code. It's just there to help the programmer, no big.
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Re: [MASM32] Basic Question
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2005, 04:57:59 pm »
The "M" at the front of "MASM" stands for "macro."  Are you familiar with C/C++ macros at all?  MASM macros work similarly.  It all comes out in the wash, and you can leave all the macros out if you want.
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Re: [MASM32] Basic Question
« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2005, 05:02:49 pm »
The "M" at the front of "MASM" stands for "macro."  Are you familiar with C/C++ macros at all?  MASM macros work similarly.  It all comes out in the wash, and you can leave all the macros out if you want.

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Re: [MASM32] Basic Question
« Reply #4 on: December 25, 2005, 05:56:20 pm »
Ok, thanks guys.

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Re: [MASM32] Basic Question
« Reply #5 on: December 25, 2005, 08:23:03 pm »
The "M" at the front of "MASM" stands for "macro."  Are you familiar with C/C++ macros at all?  MASM macros work similarly.  It all comes out in the wash, and you can leave all the macros out if you want.

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The name MASM originally referred to MACRO ASSEMBLER but over the years it has become synonymous with Microsoft Assembler.
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Re: [MASM32] Basic Question
« Reply #6 on: December 25, 2005, 09:07:57 pm »
Netwide Assembler ftw.
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Re: [MASM32] Basic Question
« Reply #7 on: December 25, 2005, 09:10:38 pm »
The "M" at the front of "MASM" stands for "macro."  Are you familiar with C/C++ macros at all?  MASM macros work similarly.  It all comes out in the wash, and you can leave all the macros out if you want.

Or Microsoft! :)

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It's still "Or Microsoft!" :)

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Re: [MASM32] Basic Question
« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2005, 03:54:57 am »
The "M" at the front of "MASM" stands for "macro."  Are you familiar with C/C++ macros at all?  MASM macros work similarly.  It all comes out in the wash, and you can leave all the macros out if you want.

Or Microsoft! :)

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The name MASM originally referred to MACRO ASSEMBLER but over the years it has become synonymous with Microsoft Assembler.
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It's still "Or Microsoft!" :)

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If it was "or Microsoft," then it would be MMASM.

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Re: [MASM32] Basic Question
« Reply #9 on: December 26, 2005, 03:56:36 am »
If it was "or Microsoft," then it would be MMASM.

G_F_G kthxbai.

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Re: [MASM32] Basic Question
« Reply #10 on: December 26, 2005, 04:02:02 am »
Recursive Acronym...trend whores..
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Re: [MASM32] Basic Question
« Reply #11 on: December 26, 2005, 04:14:26 am »
Recursive Acronym...trend whores..

Hahaha.

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Re: [MASM32] Basic Question
« Reply #12 on: December 26, 2005, 03:14:36 pm »
Recursive Acronym...trend whores..
You remember any of the ones we made up in the channel a few weeks ago?  Some were pretty good :P

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Re: [MASM32] Basic Question
« Reply #13 on: December 26, 2005, 03:26:03 pm »
Lol yea! :D
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Re: [MASM32] Basic Question
« Reply #14 on: December 26, 2005, 05:01:16 pm »
Recursive acronyms suck

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