TYPE'ing quadwords to doublewords 1

[WannabeAssembler]

Why would this statement

mov (type dword rfibsum), eax

where rfibsum is declared as a quadword
give me this error

error A2206: missing operator in expression

My declaration is as follows

.data
rfibsum qword ?

I'm using Art of Assembly as a reference for the advanced arithmetic

http://docs.mandragor.org/files/Pro...ly/Art_Of_Assembly_en/AdvancedArithmetic.html

Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,

 

[lionelhill]

... not sure, might be your assembler uses different syntax. For this I'd use
mov dword ptr MyVariable, eax