From: Tom Serface on
PC... dang I had to carry a mainframe.

Tom

"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanniDOTdicanio(a)REMOVEMEgmail.com> wrote in message
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>>>> We had to walk barefoot through the snow to get our listings...
>>
>>> Up hill, both ways.
>>
>> And carrying the PC and the CRT on the back.
>> :-)
>
> :-))
>
> G
>
>


From: Tom Serface on
I confess that I haven't read any MASM documents in a log time so that could
well be true.

Tom

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>> But, I can read any documents at all now that I have Office 2007
>> installed.
>
> Tom: at least tin my experience, with Office 2007 I can't open the MASM
> docs "out of the box" (the registry hack cited by David is required).
>
> G
>
>
>


From: Geoff on
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:05:26 -0800, "Tom Serface" <tserface(a)msn.com>
wrote:

>
>"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanniDOTdicanio(a)REMOVEMEgmail.com> wrote in message
>news:uC1GjndZKHA.5544(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> "Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000(a)yahoo.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
>> news:Xns9CC3F1BF9B8B2MihaiN(a)207.46.248.16...
>>>>> We had to walk barefoot through the snow to get our listings...
>>>
>>>> Up hill, both ways.
>>>
>>> And carrying the PC and the CRT on the back.
>>> :-)
>>
>> :-))
>>
>> G
>>
>>
>
>PC... dang I had to carry a mainframe.
>
>Tom

We had to roll ours on a cart. The wheels bogged down in the snow and
I kept stepping on the cables. :)
From: Joseph M. Newcomer on
The missing endp was the result of a misplaced copy operation.

Too bad errors that crash products can't be fixed in a timely fashion. Says something
about dedication to quality...
joe

On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:11:20 -0600, "Liviu" <lab2k1(a)gmail.c0m> wrote:

>"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer(a)flounder.com> wrote...
>> MASM 9.00,
>>[...]
>> mov eax, offset [eax].Triple.z
>>[...]
>> Apparently adding the word "offset" (left over from a previous
>> attempt) causes the error. I removed it, and it worked.
>
>FWIW v6.15 terminates with the same A1016 on the (wrong) construct
>above, but has the decency to at least log the exact line number.
>
>> But programs should not fail if there is a syntax error.
>
>MS agrees ;-) but hasn't fixed it, yet. Looks like the root bug was
>reported (and acknowledged) for more than a year now.
>http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=356393
>
>Liviu
>
>P.S. Giovanni is right about the misplaced 'endp' though that happens to
>not matter in this case (loosely speaking, it's more about source
>organization and label scoping than actual code generation).
>
>
Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
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