What will be the MASM alternative for this NASM statement?
times 510 - ($-$$) db 0
I was making a MBR bootloader. Basically this statement fills up the remaining 510 bytes on memory with 0 as a bootloader should be 512 bytes in size.
code segment use16
assume cs:code
org 7c00h
start:
; your code
db 510-($-start) dup(0)
dw 0AA55h
code ends
end start
Another alternative is using org
to actually seek in the output file, mentioned by the NASM manual as something that works in MASM but not NASM:
; MASM only
ORG 0
; some boot sector code
ORG 510
DW 0xAA55