alt Hacker News> especially named variables and struct fields
Don’t you get this from most macro assemblers? I know I’ve seen some very old and crusty ASM that nevertheless does structured programming and even limited OOP through macro-ASM facilities.
(That being said, symbolasm looks 1000x more ergonomic and “also communicates developer intent”-laden than any macro ASM ever did; and also is probably something you could learn once, while a project’s macros are specific to said project.)
I don't believe macro assemblers do a flow-based analysis to verify that the register allocation for variables is consistent; from what I understand the most you get is just a scoped alias for the name of the register. Of course, I could be missing something. If you know of anything beyond the relevant work I cite, please let me know.