Re: [Nasm-users] Preventing macro name expansion

[H. P. A. <hp...@zy...>]

Frank Kotler wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't know the answer to your question. Possibly 
> "%ifidni" instead of "%ifdef" would get rid of the "identifier 
> expected"??? I haven't had a chance to try this out... I'm not sure if 
> there's a way to do what (I think) you want... Must be...
> 

%ifdef, for obvious reasons, do not expand macros in its argument, so 
"FlagVal %+ %1" probably ends up with either nonsense or something like 
"FlagVal%1", neither of which is what is desired here.

I think a much easier way to do what the original poster wants is 
probably to use equates:

%define NextFlagEnum 1
%macro FlagEnum 1.nolist
FlagVal. %+ %1	equ NextEnum
%assign	NextFlagEnum NextFlagEnum+1
%endmacro

Since equates are symbols, not macros, NASM will do the erroring out for 
duplicate definitions.

	-hpa