initialized string in MASM struture - string

Question

In C I have this structure
struct frame
{
int whidth;
int height;
char* name;
};
I want the same in MASM
frame STRUCT
name
whidth DWORD ?
height DWORD ?
name
frame ENDS
for the name I can write ",name DWORD ?" and affect by an adress'string at runtime
but I want to initilized it.
I try this :
c1 db "big",0
c2 db "medium",0
c3 db "small",0
Frames frame <100, 50, c1>,<80, 30, c2>,<50, 20, c3>
It's not working !
I also try this
frame STRUCT
name DB <> ?
whidth DWORD ?
height DWORD ?
name
frame ENDS
don't work !
and this makes me strings of equal length filled with spaces ...
Frames frame <100, 50, "big">,<80, 30, "medium">,<50, 20, "small">
What's the right syntax?

Answer 1

You chose to omit some pretty important information from your question; the actual error message(s) you were getting.
The error messages I get for the DWORD ? variant are:
error A2008: syntax error : name
error A2036: too many initial values for structure
So let's look up error A2008:
syntax error :
A token at the current location caused a syntax error.
One of the following may have occurred:
A dot prefix was added to or omitted from a directive.
A reserved word (such as C or SIZE) was used as an identifier.
An instruction was used that was not available with the current processor or coprocessor selection.
A comparison run-time operator (such as ==) was used in a conditional assembly statement instead of a relational operator (such as EQ).
An instruction or directive was given too few operands.
An obsolete directive was used.
A few of these talk about directives, so let's open the list of MASM directives. Sure enough, NAME is listed as a directive. This means that you can't use NAME for your own symbols, since that falls under "A reserved word (such as C or SIZE) was used as an identifier". And because reserved words are case-insensitive that also rules out use of name for your own symbols.
So now you have two options:
Call the field something other than name.
If you don't need the NAME directive in your program you can remove its reserved word status using option nokeyword:<name>. You can then freely call your struct field name.
As far as initializing the field is concerned; the variant with DWORD ? would be the one most closely matching the C code, since only the address of the string gets stored in the struct, just like in the C code.

Answer 2

I found this "obvious" solution thanks for your help.
frame STRUCT
name DWORD ?
whidth DWORD ?
height DWORD ?
name
frame ENDS
c1 db "big",0
c2 db "medium",0
c3 db "small",0
Frames DWORD c1
DWORD 100
DWORD 50
DWORD c2
DWORD 80
DWORD 30
DWORD c3
DWORD 50
DWORD 20