phase error between passes 8086 assembler

Question

"phase error between passes error" is reported when I try to assemble my program using 8086 macro assembler. I have defened various macros in macros.asm file and wrote a test.asm file to test my program. When execute masm test.asm; command, phase error between passes is reported. I have included my macro.asm file before "end main" and after "main endp". These are the two files.

TEST.ASM

TITLE PG1:TEST
.MODEL SMALL
.STACK 100H
.DATA
A DW 5 DUP (0)

.CODE

MAIN PROC

MOV AX,@DATA

MOV DS,AX

MOV ES,AX

NEWLINE

MOV BX,2

PRINT_CONTENT BX

DOS_EXIT

MAIN ENDP

INCLUDE C:\MASM\11M20005\MACROS.ASM

END MAIN

MACROS.ASM

NEWLINE MACRO

    PUSH AX

    PUSH DX

    MOV AH,2

    MOV DL,0DH

    INT 21H

    MOV DL,0AH

    INT 21H

    POP DX

    POP AX

ENDM

DOS_EXIT MACRO

    MOV AH,4CH

    INT 21H

ENDM

RESTORE_REGS MACRO REGS

    IRP D,<REGS>

        POP D

    ENDM

ENDM

SAVE_REGS MACRO REGS

    IRP D,<REGS>

        PUSH D

    ENDM

ENDM

PRINT_CONTENT MACRO REG

    PUSH AX

    PUSH DX

    MOV DX,REG

    MOV AH,2

    INT 21H

    POP DX

    POP AX

ENDM

Your next step should be to reduce the problem. Delete lines until you reach a point where deleting any line makes the problem go away. Then post that program. — Raymond Chen, Oct 18 '14 at 06:38
Thanks for the reply Sir, I did not receive the error by removing the line "end mainp" from the test.asm file. What could this mean? — Vineel, Oct 19 '14 at 09:27
I don't know, but why are you using macros before defining them? — Raymond Chen, Oct 19 '14 at 15:18
But I have defined them in another file named "macros.asm" Doesn't that work? — Vineel, Oct 20 '14 at 16:34

phase error between passes 8086 assembler

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