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Q46378: MASM: Linker Error L2002: Fixup Overflow

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Article: Q46378
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 5.10
Operating System(s): MS-DOS
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | | mspl13_masm
Last Modified: 30-AUG-1989

The following message occurs when data defined in the data segment is
accessed with a CS segment override:

foo.OBJ(foo.ASM) : error L2002: fixup overflow at 0012 in segment _TEXT
pos: 658 Record type: 73EE
frm seg _TEXT, tgt seg _DATA

Code Sample
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       .DATA
old_dma_vect    dd      0
       .CODE
;
capture proc
      .
        mov     word ptr cs:old_dma_vect,bx  ;(This line caused the error)
      .
        end capture

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