SHASM Error Messages 500-555
The following table shows the SHASM error messages 500-555.
| Message # and Severity | Message Text | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| 500 ERROR | Label required here | A label was supplied for a directive that requires one. As a result, the directive might be ignored. |
| 501 ERROR | Illegal value for .ORG%s | An .ORG directive was used to move the location counter backward to a lower address than its current value or more than 1 MB forward. If the intent was to move the location counter forward by more than 1 MB, consider that this would occupy that amount of space in the object file, due to the MS-COFF object file format. Another approach may be best. |
| 503 ERROR | Exported symbol "%s" not defined | The symbol named in the message was declared in a .EXPORT directive, but was not defined anywhere in the source file. |
| 516 ERROR | This %s directive conflicts with a previous %s | An operand of a .PRINT directive conflicts with an operand of a previous .PRINT directive, or an operand of an .OUTPUT directive conflicts with an operand of a previous .OUTPUT directive. |
| 517 ERROR | The result of this expression is not known yet | An expression was supplied whose value is not yet defined in a context where the value must be known on the assembler's first pass through the file. |
| 519 ERROR | String is %u characters long; maximum is 255 | The string(s) supplied for a .SDATAC or .SDATACB directive must be no more than 255 characters long, because the length is represented in a single byte. |
| 520 ERROR | A string or string expression is required %s | A numeric constant or a numeric-valued symbol or expression was supplied in a context where a string is required. |
| 521 WARN | A literal pool would never be put here anyway | A .NOPOOL directive was put in a place where the assembler would not have generated a literal pool anyway. |
| 522 WARN | .POOL illegal in delay slot of %s | A literal pool wound up after a delayed branch instruction; the assembler automatically supplies a NOP instruction to fill the delay slot. |
| 531 ERROR | Invalid section type "%s" | An invalid section type was specified The valid section types are CODE, DATA, DUMMY, and BSS, without regard to case. |
| 532 ERROR | Section type (%s) must follow section name (%s) | The section type cannot be specified before the section name. |
| 533 ERROR | Section type (%s) cannot have a value | A value cannot be specified for the section type. |
| 534 ERROR | Invalid option "%s" | A keyword option was supplied for a directive for which it is not valid. |
| 535 ERROR | Option "%s" cannot have a value | A value was supplied for an option that cannot have a value. |
| 536 ERROR | Option "%s" must have a numeric value | A value was not supplied, or a non-numeric value was supplied, for an option that requires a numeric value. |
| 537 ERROR | MS-COFF supports alignments 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 | See the .ALIGN directive. |
| 538 ERROR | "%s": MS-COFF doesn't support absolute sections | This message only occurs if an attempt is made to use a particular feature provided by other Hitachi assemblers that is not supported in this assembler (due to restrictions of the MS-COFF object format). |
| 539 ERROR | "%s": MS-COFF Cannot export non-relocatable .EQU's | Only relative values may be exported; absolute symbols cannot be exported. |
| 540 ERROR | "%s": MS-COFF Cannot export syms from DUMMY section | Symbols defined in a section of type DUMMY cannot be exported. |
| 541 ERROR | Illegal alignment %u; must be a power of two | An alignment value must be a power of two (2^0 through 2^6). |
| 542 ERROR | Block count too large (max %u) -- directive ignored | A block count was specified that would result in more than 4 GB of data. |
| 543 ERROR | Cannot export "%s"; its value depends on "%s" | An .EQU symbol was exported whose value is dependent on an external (.IMPORT) symbol. |
| 544 WARN | Code not in function; need a .ENTRY | All code should appear between an .ENTRY directive and an .ENDF directive. |
| 545 WARN | Missing .PROLOG between .ENTRY/.ENDF for "%s" | Each function (.ENTRY and .ENDF pair) should have a .PROLOG directive inside it somewhere. |
| 546 WARN | Missing .ENDF; closing function "%s" | All code should appear between a .ENTRY directive and a .ENDF directive. |
| 547 ERROR | No matching .ENTRY for .ENDF | The assembler encountered a .ENDF directive that does not seem to have a matching .ENTRY directive. |
| 548 ERROR | No active .ENTRY for .PROLOG | The assembler encountered a .PROLOG directive when there is no .ENTRY directive active (that is, not yet terminated by a .ENDF directive). |
| 549 ERROR | .PROLOG already specified for function "%s" | A .PROLOG directive was specified more than once in a single function (.ENTRY and .ENDF pair). |
| 550 WARN | .END encountered; ignoring files starting with %s | A .END directive was encountered in a file that was not the last file specified on the command line. The rest of the files specified on the command line will be ignored. |
| 551 ERROR | .SECTION ASSOC= must be followed by a section name | The ASSOC option of the .SECTION directive must have a value that is a section name (including a COMDAT style section name, such as ".text{_main}"). |
| 552 ERROR | Section "%s" must be COMDAT to allow option "%s" | Either the section being declared with the current .SECTION directive or the target of an ASSOC= option of the current .SECTION directive is not a COMDAT style section. |
| 553 ERROR | .PDATA is illegal between .ENTRY and .ENDF | It is no longer valid to specify a .PDATA directive after a .ENTRY directive and before a .ENDF directive; the .PDATA directive must now be specified before the .ENTRY to which it should apply. |
| 554 ERROR | Prolog is too long (%u, max %u); use .BIGENTRY | The .BIGENTRY directive must be used in place of the .ENTRY directive for a function whose prolog is more than 510 bytes long. |
| 555 ERROR | Function is too long (%u, max %u); use .BIGENTRY | The .BIGENTRY directive must be used in place of the .ENTRY directive for a function that is more than 16,777,214 bytes long. |
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