Ooijen,Wouter van <Ooijen,Wouter van <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>> wrote:

> I tried andrew's suggestion:
>    #define open(x) ((x) macro)
> but that does not work (in mpasm V01.50 from MPLAB).
> "open(a)" seems to be translated to "(a) macro" or "((a) macro)",
> which is not accepted by mpasm as the start of a macro definition.

    Whoops... Sorry about that, Wouter; I wasn't thinking.

> BTW, I can start a macro open (see below), but I can not end a macro
> with close!
>    #define open(name)name macro
>    #define close endm
>    ...
>    open(my_macro)
>    ; macro body
>    close
> Anyone understands why?

    Yeah... Now that I've actually tried to do what I said you could
    do, I see that it's not possible; MPASM doesn't like anything to
    be #defined to "endm".

    Sorry for wasting your time.

> To rephrase the second part of my question: can a #define macro
> translate to multiple lines?

    No.

    -Andy

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