Chapter 9 Writing Machine Language Instructions and Directive Statements
Instruction Statement Fields 151
9.2.4 Writing Comment Field
The field that starts from a semicolon (;) after the operands is called the comment field. Comments
coded in this position are called end-of-line comments, as opposed to comment statements where the
entire line is a comment.
Coding rules
Comments being with a semicolon (;) and end with a line feed (LF).
Comment fields may be written with letters, digits, special characters, and control characters other than
carriage return and line feed.
Coding examples
mov 0x10, D0 ;Set count value