Assembly Language : 8086 Assembler Tutorial Part 10

Assembly Language programming : 8086 Assembler Tutorial (Part 10)

Macros

Macros are just like procedures, but not really. Macros look like procedures, but they exist only until your code is compiled, after compilation all macros are replaced with real instructions. If you declared a macro and never used it in your code, compiler will simply ignore it. emu8086.inc is a good example of how macros can be used, this file contains several macros to make coding easier for you.

Macro definition: name MACRO [parameters,...] <instructions> ENDM

Unlike procedures, macros should be defined above the code that uses it, for example:

MyMacro MACRO p1, p2, p3 MOV AX, p1 MOV BX, p2 MOV CX, p3 ENDM ORG 100h MyMacro 1, 2, 3 MyMacro 4, 5, DX RET

The above code is expanded into:

MOV AX, 00001h
MOV BX, 00002h
MOV CX, 00003h
MOV AX, 00004h
MOV BX, 00005h
MOV CX, DX

Some important facts about macros and procedures: When you want to use a procedure you should use CALL instruction, for example: CALL MyProc When you want to use a macro, you can just type its name. For example: MyMacro Procedure is located at some specific address in memory, and if you use the same procedure 100 times, the CPU will transfer control to this part of the memory. The control will be returned back to the program by RET instruction. The stack is used to keep the return address. The CALL instruction takes about 3 bytes, so the size of the output executable file grows very insignificantly, no matter how many time the procedure is used. Macro is expanded directly in program's code. So if you use the same macro 100 times, the compiler expands the macro 100 times, making the output executable file larger and larger, each time all instructions of a macro are inserted. You should use stack or any general purpose registers to pass parameters to procedure. To pass parameters to macro, you can just type them after the macro name. For example: MyMacro 1, 2, 3 To mark the end of the macro ENDM directive is enough. To mark the end of the procedure, you should type the name of the procedure before the ENDP directive.

Macros are expanded directly in code, therefore if there are labels inside the macro definition you may get "Duplicate declaration" error when macro is used for twice or more. To avoid such problem, use LOCAL directive followed by names of variables, labels or procedure names. For example:

MyMacro2 MACRO LOCAL label1, label2 CMP AX, 2 JE label1 CMP AX, 3 JE label2 label1: INC AX label2: ADD AX, 2 ENDM ORG 100h MyMacro2 MyMacro2 RET

If you plan to use your macros in several programs, it may be a good idea to place all macros in a separate file. Place that file in Inc folder and use INCLUDE file-name directive to use macros. See Library of common functions - emu8086.inc for an example of such file.

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