Chapter 17 Appendix
318 List of Assembler Directives
17.3 List of Assembler Directives
This section provides a list of assembler directives.

Directives for program control

Directives for symbols

Syntax Function & Notes
symbol instruction operand
align expression Adjust the location counter to be a multiple of the
value indicated by expression. The expression
must be a power of 2 in the range 1 to 215
end Indicates the end of the program.
org expression Change the program address to the value special by
expression.
expression=label_name+constant
name section [definition1
[,definition2[,expression]]] Sets the start of a section.
definition 1: section attribute
(CODE | DATA)
definition 2: link type
(PUBLIC | PRIVATE | COMMON)
expression: location counter boundary
value (power of 2).
opt on | off Enables/disables optimization
Syntax Function & Notes
symbol instruction operand
name equ value Defines a name as the value of the expression
coded in the operand.
name assign value Defines a name as the value of the expression
coded in the operand.
global name(,name)... Declares global declarations and global
references.