Article ID: 59585
Article Last Modified on 10/17/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Macro Assembler 5.1 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Macro Assembler 5.1a
This article was previously published under Q59585
SYMPTOMS
On Page Update-42 of the "Microsoft Macro Assembler 5.1 Updates and Microsoft Editor" manual, it states that you can use the LOCAL directive with a structure type. When this is done, you may receive the following errors:
CAUSE
This feature was not implemented in MASM versions 5.1 or 5.1a.
RESOLUTION
To avoid the A2003 Unknown type specifier error, include the PTR keyword in the LOCAL directive. For example:
LOCAL stuff:parms
becomes
LOCAL stuff:ptr parms
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in MASM version 5.1. This problem has been corrected in MASM version 6.0.
MORE INFORMATION
The following code can bed used to demonstrate this problem.
Sample Code
; Assemble options needed: none
.MODEL small, c
.STACK 4096
parms STRUC
p1 DW ?
p2 DW ?
parms ENDS
.CODE
CALL test_func
test_func PROC
LOCAL stuff:parms ; A2003 Unknown type specifier
MOV ax, 0ffffh
MOV stuff. p1,ax ; A2010 Syntax error
MOV stuff. p2,ax ; A2010 Syntax error
RET
test_func ENDP
END
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