Many directives are unavailable, and support for others may be limited.
This first draft has preliminary support for:
- conditional directives (including errors),
- data allocation (unsigned types up to 8 bytes, and ALIGN),
- equates/variables (numeric and text),
- and procedure directives (without parameters),
as well as COMMENT, ECHO, INCLUDE, INCLUDELIB, PUBLIC, and EXTERN. Text variables (aka text macros) are expanded in-place wherever the identifier occurs.
We deliberately ignore all ml.exe processor directives.
Prominent features not yet supported:
- structs
- macros (both procedures and functions)
- procedures (with specified parameters)
- substitution & expansion operators
Conditional directives are complicated by the fact that "ifdef rax" is a valid way to check if a file is being assembled for a 64-bit x86 processor; we add support for "ifdef <register>" in general, which requires adding a tryParseRegister method to all MCTargetAsmParsers. (Some targets require backtracking in the non-register case.)
This looks very similar to the line above; maybe add a comment that draws attention to the extra "M".