"Value Out of Range" Error

ID Number: Q26819

5.00 5.10 5.10a

MS-DOS

buglist5.00 buglist5.10 fixlist6.00

Summary:

MASM gives a "value out of range" error on the following example:

false equ 0

true equ not false

db true ;MASM choke on this line

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in version 5.0, 5.1,

and 5.1a. This problem was corrected in version 6.0.

Additional reference works: 5.00 5.10 5.10a 6.00