Result of Operation Stored in DESTINATION, Not SOURCE

ID Number: Q28229

5.00 5.10 5.10a | 5.10 5.10a

MS-DOS | OS/2

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Summary:

SYMPTOMS

On Page 308 of the "Microsoft Macro Assembler 5.0 Programmer's

Guide" and on page 308 of the "Microsoft Macro Assembler 5.1

Programmer's Guide" the first sentence incorrectly states "The

result of the operation is stored in the source..."

The sentence should read "The result of the operation is stored in

the destination..."

STATUS

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

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