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NASM Forum => Using NASM => Topic started by: nobody on December 11, 2004, 10:47:11 PM

Title: Suggestion to improve Nasm
Post by: nobody on December 11, 2004, 10:47:11 PM

Hello,

There is one "feature" of Nasm that IMHO should be updated.

When you use dq to declare a value, it only supports floating point.

This should be fixed - dq should be available for integer declarations as well.

If I want to declare the value 123456789ABCDEF0h, it seems I have to split it up into 2 dd declarations.

This is silly as some MMX commands use the 64 bit int data type, eg PADDQ. Also SSE2 supports packed quad word integers.

If you could add this improvement it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Suggestion to improve Nasm
Post by: nasm64developer on December 13, 2004, 01:44:54 PM

See SF RFE #560971.