Chapter 7 Type of Source Statements
118 Purpose of This Chapter
7.1 Purpose of This Chapter
Programs used by the Cross Assembler are collections of source statements. There are five types of
source statements, classified by their purpose.
• Machine language instruction statements and directive statements
• Assembler control statements
• Macro control statements
• Comment statements
• Blank statements
This chapter describes these five types of statements, and at the same time explains their position and
use when constructing a program.