DOCERR: Error in Macro Example in MASM 5.1 Update Manual

ID: Q49245

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Macro Assembler for MS-DOS and OS/2, version 5.1

SUMMARY

The macro example on Page Update-23 in the "Microsoft Macro Assembler 5.1: Updates and Microsoft Editor" has an error in it. The macro in the example is called RestRegs.

The current example reads as follows:


      RestRegs    MACRO
         numloc   instr  regpushed,"#"
            .
            .
            .
                  ENDM

The second line should read as follows:


         numloc  instr  regpushed,<#>

However, even with this correction made to the example this macro will not work correctly on MASM version 5.1. This example does not work correctly on MASM version 5.1 due to a problem with the SUBSTR directive when assigning a string a substring of itself.

Additional query words: 5.10

Keywords :
Version : MS-DOS:5.1
Platform : MS-DOS
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