Virtual Directive

Bender · Post by **Bender** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 4:00 am

Hi,
I wonder if anyone uses FASM as their assembler as most people use NASM which is also used by most tutorials. After having a discussion on the FASM foruns about PIC (Position Independent Code) I discovered this beautiful directive call "virtual".
A quick example:

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call getEIP_and_continue
getEIP_and_continue:
; pop EIP into EBP
pop ebp
;; position Independent
mov eax, [label]
.....
;; program's data section
virtual at ebp + ($ - getEIP_and_continue) ; $ is the current position in code
     label: dd 0x0
end virtual

Do any other assemblers support this directive?