Art of Assembly Language, 1st Edition

4.26. 4.26 Allocating Storage for Multidimensional Arrays

If you have an m x n array, it will have m * n elements and require m*n*Element_Size bytes of storage. To allocate storage for an array you must reserve this memory. As usual, there are several different ways of accomplishing this task. Fortunately, HLA's array declaration syntax is very similar to high level language array declaration syntax, so C/C++, BASIC, and Pascal programmers will feel right at home. To declare a multidimensional array in HLA, you use a declaration like the following:

ArrayName: elementType [ comma_separated_list_of_dimension_bounds ];

For example, here is a declaration for a 4×4 array of characters:

GameGrid: char[ 4, 4 ];

Here is another example that shows how to ...