Q49705: Labeling Variables with Multiple Names in MASM 5.00, 5.10

Article: Q49705
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

You can multiply define a memory location by using the LABEL
directive. The following information comes from Pages 136-137 of the
"Microsoft Macro Assembler 5.0 for the MS-DOS Operating System:
Programmer's Guide":

   name LABEL type

   The name is the symbol assigned to the variable, and type is the
   variable size. The type can be any one of the following type
   specifiers:  BYTE, WORD, DWORD, FWORD, QWORD, or TBYTE. It can also
   be the name of a previously defined structure.

The following is an example of declaring two names for the same
variable:

rainbow LABEL WORD
wizard  DW ?

In this case, rainbow and wizard point to the same word in memory.

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