Microsoft KB Archive/35785

Combine and Align Type Documentation Error ID Number: Q35785

5.00

MS-DOS docerr

Summary:

The example on Page 102 of the “Microsoft Macro Assembler Programmer’s Guide” contains an error in the naming of a segment.

The last segment should not have the name BSEG; it should have CSEG, as follows:

CSEG SEGMENT PARA STACK ‘STACK’ CSEG ENDS

This documentation error was corrected in the “Microsoft Macro Assembler Programmer’s Guide” for Version 5.10.

More Information:

The following sample from Page 102 of the programmers’s guide demonstrates the problem:

NAME module_1 ASEG SEGMENT WORD PUBLIC ‘CODE’ START: ASEG ENDS BSEG SEGMENT WORD COMMON ‘DATA’ BSEG ENDS BSEG SEGMENT PARA STACK ‘STACK’ CSEG ENDS. . ..