Problem Assembling

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I'm having a problem assembling a file for debug.  I'm using this call to ml-

F:\masm32\BIN\ML /c /coff /Cp /Zi /Fl /I"F:\masm32\INCLUDE" "tst.asm"

and the file consists of -

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.386
.MODEL flat, stdcall
repxxx MACRO argx
  .data
   db 1
  .code
  EXITM <1>
ENDM
.code
start:
  jmp @f
  mov eax,repxxx(1)
@@:
  ret
end start

When I assemble, I get-

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R:\ tst

R:\ F:\masm32\BIN\ML /c /coff /Cp /Zi /Fl /I"F:\masm32\INCLUDE" "tst.asm"
Microsoft (R) Macro Assembler Version 6.15.8803
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1981-2000.  All rights reserved.

Assembling: tst.asm
tst.asm(24) : error A2006: undefined symbol : @@

This happens with both versions 6.14 and 6.15

Can anyone shed some light on this problem?


If I change the code to this, it assembles normally-

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.386
.MODEL flat, stdcall
repxxx MACRO argx
  .data
   db 1
  .code
  EXITM <1>
ENDM
.code
start:
  jmp abcd
  mov eax,repxxx(1)
abcd:
@@:
  ret
end start

Anyone have the same problem??

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[MichaelW]

I don't know what is causing the problem, but with ML 6.14 if I eliminate the /Zi, or eliminate the switch to the data segment and back to the code segment, then the problem goes away. So far I have found no other way around the problem.

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Thanks Michael, at least you're getting the problem.  Hutch didn't seem to have any trouble. ??

Anyone else have any ideas?

[sinsi]

If you put the code in a PROC it works. The MSDN MASM reference for error A2006 says, in part,

  A local code label was referenced outside of its scope.

Also, ML version 8.00.50727.104 seemed to assemble it OK.

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Thanks sinsi.  I was wondering about the latest versions of masm.  Guess I can't complain to Microsoft then.

The whole thing seems a little flakey to me.