FASM - compacting "buffer db 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ..."

Question

I was lucky enough to run into some NASM code that compiled fine in FASM changing just a single line;

buffer times 64 db 0

This works fine in NASM, but not in FASM - i had to write:

buffer db 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...

There must be a more compact way to do this.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 12 '12 at 21:22

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You are probably looking for:

buffer db 64 dup(0)

answered Feb 12 '12 at 21:22

nc3b

user2618714 · Answer 2 · 2014-03-18T13:25:44.817

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in fasm, when a label is folowed by a macro, its name should end with a colon

buffer: times 64 db 0

edited Mar 18 '14 at 13:25

answered Jan 28 '14 at 08:50

user2618714

this answer provides the closest solution to the original code. – colxi Apr 21 '17 at 20:41

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 29 '12 at 01:20

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In fasm you should write

buffer rb 64 ; reserve 64 bytes

answered Mar 29 '12 at 01:20

pelaillo

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