some questions about szText Macro

[xiahan]

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          szText MACRO Name, Text:VARARG
                     LOCAL lbl
                           jmp lbl
                            Name db Text,0
                          lbl:
                     ENDM

              ....

            szText AboutMsg,"Minifile Version 1.0 Copyright ?1999",13,10, \
            "Steve Hutchesson < hutch@pbq.com.au >"

            szText AboutTitle,"Assembler Minifile"
            invoke ShellAbout,hWin,ADDR AboutTitle,ADDR AboutMsg,hIcon



the Text:VARARG says this parameter is variable, and the AboutMsg seems has 4 parameters, how dose the db work,

[dedndave]

VARARG says there are a variable number of arguments

[xiahan]

VARARG says there are a variable number of arguments

Oh,I misunderstood its meaning

[hutch--]

 xiahan,

The purpose of that macro is to write text data directly into the code section. It is effectively read only unless you change the attributes of the executable file in its link options. The reason for the VARARG is so you can pass text that has "," in it without the old macro parser stopping at the "," character.