ID Number: Q26800
5.00
MS-DOS
buglist5.00 fixlist5.10
Summary:
SYMPTOMS
The Microsoft Macro Assembler version 5.0 will allow an equate to
be made public.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in MASM version 5.00.
This problem was corrected in MASM version 5.10.
More Information:
The error generated by MASM 5.1 for the sample code below is:
A2014: Illegal public declaration
MASM 5.0 incorrectly generates no errors.
Sample Code:
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;Assemble options: none
PUBLIC i
i equ <text>
end