Article: Q34500
Product(s): Microsoft Macro Assembler
Version(s): 5.1
Operating System(s):
Keyword(s):
Last Modified: 04-MAY-2001
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The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Macro Assembler (MASM), version 5.1
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SYMPTOMS
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When mixing \ and / on the MASM command line, MASM will sometimes give incorrect
results and hang. The following command line causes these problems:
masm -I\sl200qr\sl -Mx -DVERS_DDQR -I\sl200qr/sl/cmerge/src/Common
\sl200qr/sl/cmerge/src/Common/comsup.asm;
The option -Mx will be ignored. MASM also hangs when processing some assembler
files.
CAUSE
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In this case, MASM was incorrectly extracting the base name; it wrote the full
path into an array big enough only for an 8.3 filename, thus overwriting many
global flags.
STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in MASM version 5.1. This problem
was corrected in MASM version 5.1a.
Additional query words: 5.10 buglist5.10 fixlist5.10a
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Keywords :
Technology : kbMASMsearch kbAudDeveloper kbMASM510
Version : :5.1
Solution Type : kbfix
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