NASM "macro stacking"

[Troy Martin]

Does anyone know if it's possible to do a %macro define inside a macro, but not end the inside macro? Like so:

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%macro crazy 1
    %macro crazy2 %1
%endmacro

There, the %endmacro ends the outer macro.

Thanks,
Troy

[DeletedAccount]

Hi,
It is pretty easy to write a macro processor that supports nested macros , the algorithm is given in Leland L Beck , System Programming . You just need to modify the alogrithm and use recursion insted following the iterative algorithm present in the book . .

Designing a macro processors based on indentation is a poor design , so %endmacro should and must ideally close the inner macro in this case .Avoid the use of macros as much as possible as they lead to hard to read code .

However you can implement the macroprocessor in such a way that endmacro also takes the macroname as a parameter . I however know not how that can be done in nasm , you may have to rolll your own macroprocessor

Regards
Shrek

[Troy Martin]

Ahh crap. This will be hard... Need to find a workaround for this one...