Question

You use

name DB "Foo",0

to declare name to be the byte-string "Foo".

How do you declare it to be a word-string instead? (i.e. 16 bits per character)

Edit:

I’m looking for a method that works well inside macros, e.g.:

GenerateThunk macro Name
    .code
    &Name& proc public
        push    offset NAME
        jmp     &Name&__actual
    NAME:                               ;          I need something like this,
        &Name&_Name dw "&Name&", 0      ;     <--- but `dw' doesn't work!
    &Name& endp
endm

Answer 1

You could do it with:

align 2
name DB "F", 0, "o", 0, "o", 0, 0, 0

depending on the encoding you need.

Within a macro, you may be able to automate this with the forc macro, something like:

NAME:
    &Name&_Name
        forc chr,<&Name&>
            byte chr, 0
        endm
        byte 0

I haven’t tried this since I don’t have access to MASM on my current box, so it may not work.