Question

How do I define a procedure cal, for example, fabs in MASM?

fabs PROC
     ...
fabs END

gives me an error, because fabs is a built-in instruction name.

Answer 1

I didn’t find an option for MASM (/Cp, /Cx, /Cu don’t seem to help). But I found a workaround for TASM:

public fabs

code segment

fabs proc
nop
ret
fabs endp

code ends

end

Can be compiled as tasm.exe /ml fa.asm. fabs will appear in the object file and listing as the symbol name. Listing:

Symbol Name                       Type   Value

??date                            Text   "12/04/11"
??filename                        Text   "fa      "
??time                            Text   "04:32:11"
??version                         Number 0314
@Cpu                              Text   0101H
@FileName                         Text   fa
@WordSize                         Text   2
@curseg                           Text   code
fabs                              Near   code:0000