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SYMPTOMSOn Page Update-42 of the "Microsoft Macro Assembler 5.1 Updates and Microsoft Editor" manual, it states that you can use the LOCAL directive with a structure type. When this is done, you may receive the following errors:
CAUSEThis feature was not implemented in MASM versions 5.1 or 5.1a. RESOLUTIONTo avoid the A2003 Unknown type specifier error, include the PTR keyword in the LOCAL directive. For example:
becomes
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed this to be a problem in MASM version 5.1. This problem has been corrected in MASM version 6.0. MORE INFORMATIONThe following code can bed used to demonstrate this problem. Sample Code
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