A little bug

[donkey]

Hi Jeremy

I was trying to find out why this won't compile and found a bug...

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CoInvoke(psfDesktop,IShellFolder.ParseDisplayName,0,0, \
L'::{450d8fba-ad25-11d0-98a8-0800361b1103}',offset chEaten, \
offset pidlDocFile,0)

The problem appears to be in the parsing of the string, the following assembles fine

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CoInvoke(psfDesktop,IShellFolder.ParseDisplayName,0,0, \
L'hello',offset chEaten, \
offset pidlDocFile,0)

It is only when the curly brackets are added to a string that the following error is thrown...

Inappropriate or missing operand to the mnemonic
add eax, IShellFolder.ParseDisplayName \
call [eax]

OBJ file not made

This problem only appears to be present when using a macro like CoInvoke, in normal circumstances it doesn't cause an error, for example...

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invoke GetModuleHandle,L"::{450d8fba-ad25-11d0-98a8-0800361b1103}"

assembles perfectly fine.

Edgar

[jorgon]

Hi Edgar

Thanks for reporting this bug, which I shall look at asap.

[jorgon]

The latest version of GoAsm available from here:-

• sorts out this bug and some others
• adds automatic structure alignment in Win32 (this was already happening when using local data)
• adds support for #dynamiclinkfile which allows you to specify in the asm source a dll/ocx/exe/drv file which exports functions used in your program, instead of in the linker's command line or command file (you need GoLink 0.26.5 for this to work)

[donkey]

Wow...

That is easily the fastest fix I have ever seen, all of the problems I reported appear to be things of the past, thank you very much Jeremy !

BTW, #dynamiclinkfile is a great addition, I will definitely be using it from now on. Especially since it appears to be OK in the include files, I plan to put the library name in each of the .H files I am creating making it relatively automatic.

Edgar