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A system specific error may occur and/or the SAS System may terminate
abnormally when issuing a %LOCAL statement. Specifically, when the
%LOCAL is followed by a macro comment on the same line, and the trailing
semicolon is missing after the variable list, the problems may surface.

For example, the following incorrect code within a macro causes errors
when the macro is invoked.

   %LOCAL a b %*test;

The corrected version of the code is:
   %LOCAL a b; %*test;

A Technical Support hot fix for Release 8.2 TSLEVEL TS2M0 for this
issue is available at:

http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/82_sbcs_prod_list.html#007001

For customers running SAS with Asian Language Support (DBCS), this
hot fix should be downloaded from:

http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/82_dbcs_prod_list.html#007001

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for Release 8.2 (TS2M0) for this issue is available at:

A fix for Release 8.2 (TS2M0) with Asian Language Support (DBCS) for this issue is available at: