FASM - compacting “buffer db 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, …”

Question

I was lucky enough to run into some NASM code that compiled fine in FASM changing just a single line;

buffer times 64 db 0

This works fine in NASM, but not in FASM - i had to write:

buffer db 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...

There must be a more compact way to do this.

Answer 1

You are probably looking for:

buffer db 64 dup(0)

Answer 2

In fasm you should write

buffer rb 64 ; reserve 64 bytes

Answer 3

in fasm, when a label is folowed by a macro, its name should end with a colon

buffer: times 64 db 0