Getting the character out of the .irpc directive

[mccoards@netscape.net]

In as version 2.9.1 I get the error message "Error: unexpected end of file  in irp or irpc" when trying to use the .irpc directive/macro to generate a character value. Is there a work around to calculate the caracter value in the repeat character directive?  Actually I really just want val = "cat" since "cat" will fit in a 4-byte wide integer.

  .set val,0
  .irpc arg,cat
    .set val,val<<8
    .set val,val+'\arg'
  .endr


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