Q49701: MASM Err Msg: A2056: Immediate Mode Illegal

Article: Q49701
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 5.00 5.10 | 5.00 5.10
Operating System(s): MS-DOS | OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | | mspl13_masm
Last Modified: 29-MAR-1990

The following information is from Page 437 of the "Microsoft Macro
Assembler 5.0 for the MS-DOS Operating System: Programmer's Guide":

   An immediate operand was supplied to an instruction that cannot use
   immediate data. For example, the following statement is illegal:

      mov ds,DGROUP

   You must move the segment address into a general register and then
   move it from that register to DS.

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