[fasm-help] Bad error

[Fabio B. <biz...@li...>]

Hi Tomasz,

I have symbols like this:

                                 MOV             P32 
[SIGNAL.TYPE],.MSG.NOTMAPPED
.._IMPORT_SIGNAL_051 =                          $-8

                                 MOV             P32 [SIGNAL.CNT],ECX
.._IMPORT_SIGNAL_063 =                          $-4


When I have few tens of such symbols (differing only in the terminating 
part), FAsm says:

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flat assembler  version 1.39
error: code cannot be generated.

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After some experimenting, I found this even more weird fix:

                                 MOV             P32 
[SIGNAL.TYPE],.MSG.NOTMAPPED
.._IMPORT_SIGNAL_051 =                          $-8
.._IMPORT_SIGNAL_051 =                          .._IMPORT_SIGNAL_051

                                 MOV             P32 [SIGNAL.CNT],ECX
.._IMPORT_SIGNAL_063 =                          $-4
.._IMPORT_SIGNAL_063 =                          .._IMPORT_SIGNAL_063

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Q1: Will the above produce correct code at least?
Q2: Is there a real fix for this problem?

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PS: I played a bit more and found the error: there's a limit ( = 100 ) in 
the maximum number of passes of ASSEMBLE.INC. I increased it to 255 
(because it's stored in a byte.. I didn't remove the limit check code 
because the variable is referenced elsewhere, so it may not work anyway) 
and reassembled the FAsm source.

Tomasz: it appears unnecessary to add passes for things like the above.. as 
also proven by the fix of the extra "symbol = symbol" solution. Nor it 
would be wise to limit the maximum number of *practically* usable symbols. 
I can imagine that equ may require additional passes in such cases.. but 
"=" should really not, in my understanding of how FAsm internally works.

Please don't limit FAsm in such ways.

Greets,
Fabio