September 2017
Beginner to intermediate
290 pages
6h 58m
English
One of the huge advantages of Flat Assemblers over other assemblers for the Intel platform is its macro engine. In addition to being able to perform its original task--substituting macro instructions with their definitions--it is able to perform relatively complex computations, and I would dare to call it an additional programming language. The preceding examples only utilize a tiny fraction of what FASM's macro processor is capable of. While we only used a set of if clauses and a variable, we may, in necessary cases, use loops (with while or repeat statements). For example, imagine a string of characters that you want to keep encrypted:
my_string db 'This string will be encrypted',0x0d, 0x0a, ...
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