The Art of Assembly Language, 2nd Edition

4.23 Allocating Storage for Multidimensional Arrays

If you have an m x n array, it will have m * n elements and require m * n * Element_Size bytes of storage. To allocate storage for an array you must reserve this memory. As usual, there are several different ways of accomplishing this task. Fortunately, HLA's array-declaration syntax is very similar to high-level language array-declaration syntax, so C/C++, Java, BASIC, and Pascal programmers will feel right at home. To declare a multidimensional array in HLA, you use a declaration like the following:

ArrayName: elementType [ comma_separated_list_of_dimension_bounds ];

For example, here is a declaration for a 4x4 array of characters:

GameGrid: char[ 4, 4 ];

Here is another example that shows how ...