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9.33.3 Assembler Directives for the Z8000

The Z8000 port of as includes additional assembler directives, for compatibility with other Z8000 assemblers. These do not begin with . (unlike the ordinary as directives).

segm

.z8001 Generate code for the segmented Z8001.

unsegm

.z8002 Generate code for the unsegmented Z8002.

name Synonym for .file

global Synonym for .global

wval Synonym for .word

lval Synonym for .long

bval Synonym for .byte

sval Assemble a string. sval expects one string literal, delimited by single quotes. It assembles each byte of the string into consecutive addresses. You can use the escape sequence % xx (where xx represents a two-digit hexadecimal number) to represent the character whose ascii value is xx. Use this feature to describe single quote and other characters that may not appear in string literals as themselves. For example, the C statement char *a = "he said \"it's 50% off\""; is represented in Z8000 assembly language (shown with the assembler output in hex at the left) as

          68652073    sval    'he said %22it%27s 50%25 off%22%00'
          61696420
          22697427
          73203530
          25206F66
          662200

rsect synonym for .section

block synonym for .space

even special case of .align; aligns output to even byte boundary.

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