Article ID: 34503
Article Last Modified on 11/19/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Macro Assembler 5.1 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q34503
SUMMARY
Page 38 of the "Microsoft Macro Assembler 5.1 Update" guide states the following about the type that can be specified for an argument in the syntax of PROC
... the type of the argument may be WORD, DWORD, FWORD, QWORD,
TBYTE or the name of a structure defined by a STRUC structure
declaration...
When attempting to use a structure name, the following error will be generated
The error is generated because support of the STRUC type for arguments to PROC has not been added to MASM version 5.1. However, it is a feature of MASM version 6.0 and later.
MORE INFORMATION
The following program illustrates the problem. It will assemble correctly with MASM 6.0 and later.
Sample Code
; Assembly options needed: none
.model small,c
.data
t1 STRUC
w1 dw 0
t1 ENDS
.code
h1 PROC arg1:t1
;
h1 ENDP
END
Additional query words: 5.10
Keywords: KB34503
