When assemblers report bizarre errors, make sure the source was/is in
real pure ASCII with no word processing headers.

Just a thought...  /s/  Bill

On Wed, 14 Sep 1994, Pic User wrote:

> If anyone`s reading this right now, please,please please reply asap......
> I`m quite desperate!
> Using MPALC with an assembler file, I got the following error messages.
>
> Fatal Error : Line 1 : Illegal forward reference to macro.
> It came up with this 17 times before giving up on the compiling.
> Strange, as my first line is:
>
> LIST    P=16C84
>
> I tried removing this line, so my first line was:
>
> rtcc    EQU 0x01
>
> Same error stream flowed out!!
>
> Any ideas anyone?
> Additionally, I tried setting part to be 16C84 in MPALC`s command line, ie
> MPALC p1.asm /P16C84
> as per instruction manual.
> It came back with something like "unrecognised part : processor = (null)"
> and exitted.
>
> Bryan
>
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