.RADIX 16 Directive and Real Number Initialization Statement

ID Number: Q30502

5.10 5.10a

MS-DOS

buglist5.10 buglist5.10a fixlist6.00

Summary:

When .RADIX 16 directive is used, a real number initialization

statement will generate the error "non-digit in number." The following

is an example:

.MODEL small

.RADIX 16

.data

sym dd 1.0

end

The problem does not occur under MASM version 4.00 or 5.00, but does

occur under MASM versions 5.1 and MASM 5.1a.

More Information:

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem with MASM versions 5.1

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