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Assembler Directives and Pseudo-Operations

.EQU Directive

.EQU Directive

The .EQU directive assigns an expression value to an identifier.

Syntax

symbolic_name .EQU value

Parameters

symbolic_name The name of the identifier to which the Assembler

 

assigns the expression.

value

An integer expression. The Assembler evaluates the

 

expression, which must be absolute, and assigns this

 

value to symbolic_name. If the expression references

 

other identifiers, each identifier must be defined before

 

the .EQU directive attempts to evaluate the expression.

The Assembler prohibits the use of relocatable symbols (instruction labels) and imported symbols as components of an .EQU expression.

Example

This is a valid assembly program because the definition of val1 comes before the definition of val2. Reversing the first two statements, however, produces an error condition.

val1 .EQU 0

val2 .EQU val1+4

.SPACE $TEXT$

.SUBSPA $CODE$ LDW val1,%r1 STW %r1,val2

.END

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