structure arrays in NASM

[thomasantony]

How do I declare an array of structs in NASM? You know in MASM you would do:

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label    STRUCTNAME  10 dup (<?>)


Thomas :U

[Tedd]

Short answer: you don't :P

The simplest thing to do is define SIZE_STRUCT and then do resb 10*SIZE_STRUCT

[rea]

If you use struc macro (because is a macro, nasm dosent have direct support for this things, tought I guess that is a failure :P... most  by the performance than other things :)) ;)

Anyway, when yu define a struc in nasm like...

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struc SName
.firstmember resd 2
.secondMember resw 1
endstruc

is not only defined:

SName.firstmember with a value of 0 and
SName.secondMember with a value of 8

I supose I dont need to explain that to you ;).


But in that macro is also defined another thing, apart of the above.. what???

SName_size with the value of 10 :D. That is done automatically when you use the macro endstruc ;).

Then

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startOfArrays: resb 10*SName_size
in the case you whan that space in bss section

or

StartOfArray: times 10*SName_size db 0
in the data section filled with zeros