How to declare a CRITICAL_SECTION in assembly X86, Intel

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Hello!
I've tried to declare a critical section in ASM but have some problems. Below is my code:

.586
.Model flat, StdCall
Option CaseMap:none

;Includes
	;External
	Include	\masm32\include\windows.inc
	Include	\masm32\include\user32.inc
	Include	\masm32\include\kernel32.inc
	Include \masm32\include\gdi32.inc
	IncludeLib \masm32\lib\kernel32.lib
	IncludeLib \masm32\lib\user32.lib
	IncludeLib \masm32\lib\gdi32.lib
	;Internal
	Include Logs.inc

;Procedures
	WinMain Proto :DWord, :DWord, :DWord, :DWord

.Const

.Data?
	hInstance HINSTANCE ?
	CommandLine LPSTR ? 

.Data
	WndCritical CRITICAL_SECTION dup(0)
	AppTitle DB "[VeMU]ConnectServer", 0
	ClassName DB "ClassName", 0

And here are the errors:

(27)error A2179: structure improperly initialized
(27)error A2008: syntax error: dup
The line 27 is: WndCritical CRITICAL_SECTION dup(0)

How to make it properly? Thanks in advance!!!

Posted 10-Apr-10 4:16am

BluStudio

Updated 8-May-10 5:54am

Moak

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Alan N · Answer 1 · 2010-04-10T08:20:00

It's a while since I did this but surely DUP is used to declare arrays. It's angle brackets for structure initialisation.

CRITICAL_SECTION STRUCT 
          DebugInfo      DWORD ? 
          LockCount      LONG ? 
          RecursionCount LONG ? 
          OwningThread   HANDLE ? 
          LockSemaphore  HANDLE ? 
          SpinCount      DWORD ? 
CRITICAL_SECTION ENDS

; explicit initialisation of all fields
WndCritical1 CRITICAL_SECTION <0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0>
; use default values
WndCritical2 CRITICAL_SECTION < ? >
; array of 8 critical sections
WndCriticalArray CRITICAL_SECTION 8 DUP (< ? >)

Alan.