➜ It supports a wide variety of macro facilities and structured programming idioms, including
high-level constructions for looping, procedure calls and alternation (therefore, MASM is an
example of a high-level assembler).
➜ MASM is one of the few Microsoft development tools for which there was no separate 16-bit
and 32-bit version.
➜ Assembler affords the programmer looking for additional performance a three pronged
approach to performance based solutions.
➜ MASM can build very small high performance executable files that are well suited where size
and speed matter.
➜ When additional performance is required for other languages, MASM can enhance the
performance of these languages with small fast and powerful dynamic link libraries.
➜ For programmers who work in Microsoft Visual C/C++, MASM builds modules and libraries
that are in the same format so the C/C++ programmer can build modules or libraries in MASM
and directly link them into their own C/C++ programs. This allows the C/C++ programmer to
target critical areas of their code in a very efficient and convenient manner, graphics
manipulation, games, very high speed data manipulation and processing, parsing at speeds that
most programmers have never seen, encryption, compression and any other form of
information processing that is processor intensive.
➜ MASM32 has been designed to be familiar to programmers who have already written API
based code in Windows. The invoke syntax of MASM allows functions to be called in much
the same way as they are called in a high level compiler.