Same old, same old: MACROS

[TNick]

Frustating... maybe there is a complete tutorial or something on build in macros and special symbols that can be used in macros.
Anyway, I need a macro that should be replaced with it's output (a TEXTEQU) at assamble time . This is my macro:

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MyStupidMacro      MACRO      String1:REQ,String2:REQ, Arguments:VARARG
LOCAL      strVar_01
LOCAL      strVar_02
     
      % strVar_01      TEXTEQU      <String1&!_!_!_&String2&  TEXTEQU !<>
     
      FOR strVar_02,<Arguments>
            strVar_01      CATSTR  strVar_01,<strVar_02>,<!,>
      ENDM
      strVar_01      CATSTR  strVar_01,<!>>
      % ECHO strVar_01
      % IFDEF <strVar_01>
          % ECHO Redefinition
      ENDIF
       EXITM strVar_01
ENDM

MyStupidMaCRO  Text1, Text2, a100,a101

What I need to be put instead this macro call is
A_Object_Structure___Function1  TEXTEQU <DWORD,DWORD,>
ECHO returns this text ok, but I keep recive this
error A2008: syntax error : MyStupidMaCRO

Thanks,
Nick

[TNick]

Found it. No EXITM needed at the end!

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MyStupidMacro      MACRO      String1:REQ,String2:REQ, Arguments:VARARG
LOCAL      strVar_01
LOCAL      strVar_02
     
      % strVar_01      TEXTEQU      <String1&!_!_!_&String2&  TEXTEQU !<>
     
      FOR strVar_02,<Arguments>
            strVar_01      CATSTR  strVar_01,<strVar_02>,<!,>
      ENDM
      strVar_01      CATSTR  strVar_01,<!>>
      % ECHO strVar_01
      % IFDEF <strVar_01>
          % ECHO Redefinition
      ENDIF
      strVar_01
ENDM

MyStupidMaCRO  Text1, Text2, a100,a101


[TNick]

But a new question is rising:
How can you find out what type a variable is?
For example:
.DATA
    MyVar   DWORD   0
    MySecondVar    RECT   <>

How cn I know later, in my code, what type MyVar and MySecondVar are?

Nick

[TNick]

Found answer in Stdlib Macros.Thanks, Randall! :)

PS
Don't mind me! I'm just talking to myself in here...

Nick

[zooba]

The MASM32 help file contains the most complete macro reference I've seen for MASM. It's worth a read to get to know what operators and directives exist and what they are capable of.

Cheers,

Zooba :U

[TNick]

Hello, zooba! How are yo my frined? Thanks for reply!
I've read masm32.hlp before starting this thread. The problem is that there should be some more examples about using those macros, I think. Or, maybe, I was a little slow and didn't get that on first reading. Anyway, I'm really thinking about writing a tutorial on those, as soon as I gain some experience with them. :)

Best regards,
Nick

[u]

When I was studying the macros, apart from reading the masm32.hlp, I had to experiment a lot. Sometimes there should be a % before lines, sometimes % before words (integers), sometimes & before variables, sometimes @CatStr instead of CATSTR.
A bit later I tried doing a macro-"listing" (needs special parameters to ml.exe and those listing-keywords in the .asm) - it explained a bit more how and where macro-variables are created (but ml6.14 sometimes crashes in that case...)
OA32's code is nicely done, so keep it as a reference on how to make macros.

[TNick]

Hi, Ultrano!

Sometimes there should be a % before lines, sometimes % before words (integers), sometimes & before variables, sometimes @CatStr instead of CATSTR.

I couldn't say it better!  :bg

OA32's code is nicely done, so keep it as a reference on how to make macros.

Thanks for the tip, I can't tell why I didn't look inthere!? Maybe just stupid ...  :(

Best regards,
Nick