Illegal Operator on Include

[marduk_kurios]

Hi.

I encountered this problem several times, with different include files using different ASM-One versions (from 1.02 to 1.20) on Kickstart 1.3.

When assembling this:

    INCDIR    asm:include1.3/

    include    exec/exec_lib.i
    include    libraries/dos_lib.i
    include    libraries/dos.i
    include    intuition/intuition_lib.i

I get

** Illegal Operator
5    include    libraries/dos.i

Now, I am not really good with this (yet). But for the heck of it I checked whether I could assemble dos.i. However, I get:

** Illegal Operator
53   STRUCTURE DateStamp,0

Is this my problem? What could I do except to not use includes...?

[mark_k]

The STRUCTURE macro is defined in exec/types.i so try including that first.

[marduk_kurios]

Damn. This fixed it.

I feel rather stupid.

Thank you, good sir.

[Hewitson]

Always good idea to do a grep in these sorts of situations

[demolition]

Have a similar problem here, however the above is not the explanation in my case I think..

When I do 'incdir sources:include/' it stops at that line and says 'illegal operator'. And I am 100% sure this path exists. See pics. It says this no matter what I type after incdir.

It does the same with INCLUDE.

Am using Asm-Pro 1.18.

Edit: The solution just dawned on me.. 'incdir' should not be located all the way to the left because then it becomes a label and obviously then it fails to recognize the rest of the line as an operator. So after indenting those lines, it is working.

[Photon]

Yep, if you uncheck the Label: option the Assembler must interpret words at the very start of a line as a label, or labels wouldn't be possible. With Label: option on, words at the very start of a line can be interpreted as directives, instructions, etc. again.

AsmTwo does show the line in error inside an include, I added that because it's a must-have.

[dissident]

Originally Posted by marduk_kurios

Damn. This fixed it.

I feel rather stupid.

Thank you, good sir.

No, you don't have to feel stupid. Years ago I had the same problem, but I changed the relevant structures by hand to RSRESET, RS.B or RS.W or RS.L and so on. Much work for nothing. That was stupid.

[demolition]

Originally Posted by dissident

No, you don't have to feel stupid. Years ago I had the same problem

Maybe you had the problem about the same time? Hint: You're replying to a 3½ year old post.

[dissident]

Originally Posted by demolition

Maybe you had the problem about the same time? Hint: You're replying to a 3½ year old post.

You are absolutely right. I should read the threads more carefully. And yes, it was about 4-5 years ago I had this problem. But I was not a member of the English Amiga Board and also didn't know about its existence.