This is an official announcement regarding the rewrite/revamp of the
NASM preprocessor, now available as part of the official/main NASM
source code starting with NASM 2.10rc2.

This rewrite addresses issues with implementing recursive macros
(%rmacro/%irmacro) as previously attempted, %exitmacro and also makes
room for new directives.

New NASM Directives:
* %rmacro: Recursive Macro, can be called arbitrarily deep (really
high limit [2^20] set to catch infinite loops.)
* %irmacro: Same as above, except case-insensitive like %imacro.
* %exitmacro: Terminates the current macro invocation, much like
%exitrep; can be nested in other preprocessor directives (e.g. %if/
%endif) within the macro, with exception of another macro, of course.
* %while/%endwhile/%exitwhile: A fusion between %rep and %if.
* %comment/%endcomment: Comment block for long/multi-line comments. A
little syntactic sugar, if you will.
* %final: Causes rest of line after %final to be preprocessed after
all other "normal" preprocessing is complete. Multiple %final
directives work like the x86 stack, LIFO/FILO.

This rewrite also addresses efficiency issues with heavy/nested macro
invocations.

Please help us test this rewrite further by downloading/compiling the
NASM 2.10rc2 and testing it against your NASM code/snippets.

NASM 2.10rc2 is available for download (source and binaries) at
http://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/2.10rc2/

Please note that the official documentation will be updated over the
next few weeks as we approach an official/stable NASM 2.10 release.

If there are any questions/comments/concerns, please reply to this
thread.

Thanks. -Keith