FIX: No Error Generated by MASM 5.0 for Equates Made Public

• Microsoft Macro Assembler for MS-DOS, version 5.0

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

Sample Code:

;Assemble options: none

PUBLIC i
i      equ <text>

end 

Additional query words: 5.00 buglist5.00 fixlist5.10

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Version : :5.0
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