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Debugger General Information

A numeric value may also be expressed as a string literal of up to four characters. The string literal must begin and end with the single quote mark ('). The numeric value is interpreted as the concatenation of the ASCII values of the characters. This value is right-justified, as any other numeric value would be.

String

Numeric Value

Literal

(In Hexadecimal)

 

 

'A'

41

 

 

'ABC'

414243

 

 

'TEST'

54455354

 

 

Evaluation of an expression is performed according to the following rules:

Always from left to right unless parentheses are used to group part of the expression

There is no operator precedence

Subexpressions within parentheses are evaluated first

Nested parenthetical subexpressions are evaluated from the inside out

Valid expression examples:

Expression

Result (In Hex)

Notes

 

 

 

FF0011

FF0011

 

 

 

 

45+99

DE

 

 

 

 

&45+&99

90

 

 

 

 

@35+@67+@10

5C

 

 

 

 

%10011110+%1001

A7

 

 

 

 

88<<4

880

shift left

 

 

 

AA&F0

A0

logical AND

 

 

 

The total value of the expression must be between 0 and $FFFFFFFF.

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