;This file demonstrates many of the differences between NASM version X and NASM ;version 0.97 ; ; changes.asm is copyright (C) 1998 John S. Fine ; ; It may be redistributed under the same conditions as NASM as described in ; Licence file in the NASM archive ;_________________________________ ; ; nasm changes.asm -l changes.lst ; ; When assembled without any -d switches, it includes examples which: ; Work correctly in version X ; and Work incorrectly and/or display warnings in version 0.97 ; and Do not prevent the generation of output in version 0.97 ; ; Not all the differences can be seen in the .lst file. I suggest that you use ; "ndisasm changes" to examine the code actually generated. ;_________________________________ ; ; nasm changes.asm -l changes.lst -doldmsg ; ; When assembled with -doldmsg, it adds examples which: ; Work correctly in version X ; and Generate error messages in version 0.97 and do not generate output ;_________________________________ ; ; nasm changes.asm -l changes.lst -doldcrash ; ; When assembled with -doldcrash, it adds examples which: ; Work correctly in version X ; and Cause NASM to crash in version 0.97 ;_________________________________ ; ; nasm changes.asm -l changes.lst -dnewmsg ; ; When assembled with -dnewmsg, it adds examples which: ; Generate error messages in version X ; and Generate wrong output without warning or error message in version 0.97 ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Please note that I have reported the name of the person who made the ; correction based on very limited information. In several cases, I am sure I ; will identify the wrong author. Please send me any corrections; I don't ; intend to insult or exclude anyone. ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Bug fixed by Simon in assemble() ; ; The following generated "call next" / "call next-1" instead of ; two copies of "call next" ; times 2 a16 call next next: ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Bug fixed by John in parse_line() (and other routines) ; ; This used to jmp to prior.1, when it should be here.1 ; prior: .1: here: jmp .1 .1: ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Bug fixed by John in assemble() ; ; Strings used in dq and dt were not zero filled correctly ; dq 'b' ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Bug fixed by Simon in isn_names[] ; ; Was not recognised as an instruction ; int01 ; Instead of INT1 ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Bug fixed by Jim Hague in ??? ; ; Forward references were instruction level rather than per operand ; shr word [forwardref],1 forwardref: ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Bug fixed by John in preproc.c ; ; It used to silently discard id characters appended to a multi-line ; macro parameter (such as the x in %1x below). ; %macro xxx 1 %1: nop %{1}x: jmp %1x %endmacro xxx yyy %ifdef oldmsg ;*************************************************************** ; ; The following examples will generate error messages in 0.97 and will generate ; correct output in the new version. ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Bug fixed by Simon in isns.dat ; ; The optional "near" was not permitted on JMP and CALL ; jmp near here ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Feature added by Simon in stdscan() ; ; You can now use the numeric value of strings in %assign ; %assign xxx 'ABCD' dd xxx ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Feature added by John in add_vectors() ; ; Stranger address expressions are now supported as long as they resolve to ; something valid. ; mov ax, [eax + ebx + ecx - eax] ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Bug fixed by Simon in ??? ; ; The EQU directive affected local labels in a way that was inconsistent ; between passes ; .local: neither equ $ jmp .local ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Feature added by Jules in parse_line ; ; You can override a size specifier ; %define arg1 dword [bp+4] cmp word arg1, 2 ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Bug fixed by John in preproc.c ; ; You could not use a label on the same line with a macro invocation, if the ; macro definition began with a preprocessor directive. ; struc mytype .long resd 1 endstruc lbl istruc mytype at mytype.long, dd 'ABCD' iend ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Warning removed by John in preproc.c ; ; In order to allow macros that extend the definition of instructions, I ; disabled the warning on a multi-line macro referencing itself. ; %endif ;NASM 0.97 doesn't handle %0 etc. inside false %if %macro push 1-* ; %rep %0 ; push %1 ; %rotate 1 ; %endrep ; %endmacro ; %ifdef oldmsg ; push ax,bx ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Warning removed by John in preproc.c ; ; To support other types of macros that extend the definition of instructions, ; I disabled the warning on a multi-line macro called with the wrong number of ; parameters. PUSH and POP can be extended equally well by either method, but ; other intruction extensions may need one method or the other, so I made both ; work. ; ; Note that neither of these warnings was really needed, because a later stage ; of NASM would almost always give an adequate error message if the macro use ; really was wrong. ; %endif %macro pop 2-* %rep %0 pop %1 %rotate 1 %endrep %endmacro %ifdef oldmsg pop ax,bx %endif %ifdef newmsg ;*************************************************************** ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Bug fixed by John in parse_line() (and other routines) ; ; This invalid code used to assemble without errors ; myself equ myself+1 jmp myself ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Change made by John in preproc.c ; ; In 0.97, an id that appears as a label on a macro invocation was always ; prepended to the first line of the macro expansion. That caused several ; bugs, but also could be used in tricks like the arg macro in c16.mac and ; c32.mac. ; ; In version X, an id that appears as a label on a macro invocation will ; normally be defined as a label for the address at which the macro is ; invoked, regardless of whether the first line of the macro expansion is ; something that can take a label. The new token %00 may be used for any ; of the situations in which the old prepend behavior was doing something ; tricky but useful. %00 can also be used more than once and in places ; other than the start of the expansion. ; %endif %assign arg_off 0 %imacro arg 0-1 2 ;arg defined the old way equ arg_off %assign arg_off %1+arg_off %endmacro %ifdef newmsg arg_example arg %endif %imacro arg2 0-1 2 ;arg defined the new way %00 equ arg_off %assign arg_off %1+arg_off %endmacro %ifdef oldmsg arg_example2 arg2 ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Change made by Jules and John in INSNS.DAT ; ; Various instruction in which the size of an immediate is built-in to the ; instruction set, now allow you to redundantly specify that size as long ; as you specify it correctly ; AAD byte 5 AAM byte 5 BT bx, byte 3 BTC cx, byte 4 BTR dx, byte 5 BTS si, byte 6 IN eax, byte 0x40 INT byte 21h OUT byte 70h, ax RET word 2 RETN word 2 RETF word 4 ; note "ENTER" has not been changed yet. ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Enhancement by hpa in insns.dat et al ; ; Simplified adding new instructions, and added some missing instructions ; int03 ; Instead of INT3 ud1 ; No documented mnemonic for this one ud2 sysenter sysexit fxsave [ebx] fxrstor [es:ebx+esi*4+0x3000] %endif %ifdef oldcrash ;************************************************************* This_label_is_256_characters_long__There_used_to_be_a_bug_in_stdscan_which_made_it_crash_when_it_did_a_keyword_search_on_any_label_longer_than_255_characters__Now_anything_longer_than_MAX_KEYWORD_is_always_a_symbol__It_will_not_even_try_a_keyword_search___ ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Bug fixed by John in preproc.c ; ; Builds of NASM that prohibit dereferencing a NULL pointer used to crash if a ; macro that started with a blank line was invoked with a label ; %macro empty_macro 0 %endm emlabel empty_macro jmp emlabel ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Enhancement by Conan Brink in preproc.c ; ; Allow %rep to be nested ; %rep 4 %rep 5 nop %endrep %endrep %endif