High Level Assembly - Assembly language

High Level Assembly, aka High Level Assembly, is an open source assembly language created in 2011 by Randall Hyde.

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High Level Assembly (HLA) is an high-level assembly language developed by Randall Hyde. It allows the use of higher-level language constructs to aid both beginners and advanced assembly developers. It fully supports advanced data types and object-oriented programming. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: assembly language
Early development of High Level Assembly happened in Plantation Productions, Inc
Pascal and Ada and Modula-2 and C++ influenced the design of High Level Assembly
Explore High Level Assembly snippets on Rosetta Code
See also: (15 related languages) Assembly language, Linux, FreeBSD, IA-32, Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, Microsoft Macro Assembler, Turbo Assembler, X86, C, Netwide Assembler, GNU Assembler, Common Object File Format, Extensible Linking Format
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Example from the web:

procedure SetFormat;

static
    chr     :w.CHARRANGE;
    chr2    :w.CHARRANGE;
    cf      :w.CHARFORMAT;

begin SetFormat;
    
    w.SendMessage(hwnd, w.EM_GETMODIFY,0,0);
    push    (eax);
    
    w.SendMessage(hwnd, w.EM_EXGETSEL,0, &chr);
    w.SendMessage(hwnd, w.EM_HIDESELECTION, true,0);
    mov (0, chr2.cpMin);
    mov (-1,chr2.cpMax);
    w.SendMessage(hwnd, w.EM_EXSETSEL,0,&chr2);
    mov (@size(cf), cf.cbSize);
    mov (w.CFM_CHARSET | w.CFM_FACE | w.CFM_SIZE | w.CFM_COLOR, cf.dwMask);
    mov (logfont.lfCharSet, al);
    mov (al,cf.bCharSet);
    mov (logfont.lfPitchAndFamily, al);
    mov (al, cf.bPitchAndFamily);
    w.lstrcpyn(cf.szFaceName,&logfont.lfFaceName,w.LF_FACESIZE);
    mov (logfont.lfHeight, eax);
    neg (eax);
    mov (15,ecx);
    mul     (ecx);
    mov (eax, cf.yHeight);
    mov (rgb, cf.crTextColor);
    w.SendMessage(hwnd, w.EM_SETCHARFORMAT, w.SCF_SELECTION,&cf);
    w.SendMessage(hREd, w.WM_SETFONT, hFont, true);
    w.SendMessage(hREd, w.EM_SETMARGINS, w.EC_LEFTMARGIN,5);
    pop (eax);
    w.SendMessage(hwnd, w.EM_SETMODIFY, eax,0);
    w.SendMessage(hwnd, w.EM_EXSETSEL,0,&chr);
    w.SendMessage(hwnd,w.EM_HIDESELECTION, false, 0);

end SetFormat;

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example
Macros	✓	// _SortCases_ // // This routine does a bubble sort on an array // of _caseRecord_ objects. It sorts in ascending // order using the "value" field as the key. // // This is a good old fashioned bubble sort which // turns out to be very efficient because: // // (1) The list of cases is usually quite small, and // (2) The data is usually already sorted (or mostly sorted). macro _SortCases_( ary, size ):i, bnd, didswap, temp; ?bnd := size - 1; ?didswap := true; #while( didswap ) ?didswap := false; ?i := 0; #while( i < bnd ) #if( ary[i].value > ary[i+1].value ) ?temp := ary[i]; ?ary[i] := ary[i+1]; ?ary[i+1] := temp; ?didswap := true; #endif ?i := i + 1; #endwhile ?bnd := bnd - 1; #endwhile; endmacro;
Line Comments	✓	// comment
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