Re: [Nasm-cvs] nasm/doc nasmdoc.src,1.63,1.64

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

deb...@us... wrote:
> +
> +For example, you may want to embed the path to your TEMP directory
> +in your program. As this is usually stored in an environment variable
> +called TEMP, this could be coded as follows:
> +
> +\c %define TEMP    %!TEMP
> +\c %define quote   '
> +\c
> +\c tmpstr  db      quote TEMP quote
> +
> +At the time of writing, this will generate an "unterminated string"
> +warning at the time of defining "quote", and it will add a space
> +before and after the string that is read in. I was unable to find
> +a simple workaround, so I believe that you will need to allow for
> +the extra spaces if you make use of this feature in that way.
> +
>  

Sounds like we really need a "stringizing" operator, like C has.

	-hpa