Although the core idea behind the macro instruction mechanism is the same across all assemblers, the syntax of macro instructions and the capabilities of the engine vary. The following are two examples of simple macros for MASM and GAS.
Macro instructions in MASM and GAS
Microsoft Macro Assembler
Remember our test program for MASM in Chapter 2, Setting Up a Development
Environment? We can replace the code that invokes the show_message procedure with the following macro instruction:
MSHOW_MESSAGE MACRO title, message ;macro_name MACRO parameters
push message
push title
call show_message
ENDM
This may make the code a bit more readable as we may then call the show_message procedure this way:
MSHOW_MESSAGE offset ti, offset...