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  36 <h2 class="appendix">Appendix B Assembler Directives</h2>
  37
  38 <p>It is considered good practice to prepend a period to a directive when invoking it (to differentiate it from identifiers), but this is not a strict requirement.
  39
  40    <p>The following is an alphabetical listing of the directives supported by the assembler and the arguments they may take. Arguments enclosed in square brackets [ ] are optional.
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  42      <dl>
  43 <dt><code>align </code><var>identifier</var> <em>[, </em><var>identifier-2</var><em>, ...]</em> <var>boundary</var><dd>Specifies alignment constraints for a list of data variables.
  44
  45      <br><dt><code>asc (</code><em>Alias for</em><code> char)</code>
  46 <br><dt><code>byte (</code><em>Alias for</em><code> db)</code>
  47 <br><dt><code>char </code><var>expression</var> <em>[, </em><var>expression</var><em>, ...]</em><dd>Define (array of) character transformed by custom character map
  48
  49      <br><dt><code>charmap "</code><var>filename</var><code>"</code><dd>Set custom character map
  50
  51      <br><dt><code>codeseg, code</code><dd>Switch to code segment
  52
  53      <br><dt><code>dataseg, data </code><em>[zeropage]</em><dd>Switch to data segment
  54
  55      <br><dt><code>db </code><var>expression</var> <em>[, </em><var>expression</var><em>, ...]</em><dd>Define (array of) byte
  56
  57      <br><dt><code>dd </code><var>expression</var> <em>[, </em><var>expression</var><em>, ...]</em><dd>Define (array of) doubleword
  58
  59      <br><dt><code>define </code><var>identifier</var> <em>[</em><var>expression</var><em>]</em><dd>See <code>equ</code> directive
  60
  61      <br><dt><code>dsb </code><var>expression</var><dd>Define storage of bytes
  62
  63      <br><dt><code>dsd </code><var>expression</var><dd>Define storage of doublewords
  64
  65      <br><dt><code>dsw </code><var>expression</var><dd>Define storage of words
  66
  67      <br><dt><code>dw </code><var>expression</var> <em>[, </em><var>expression</var><em>, ...]</em><dd>Define (array of) word
  68
  69      <br><dt><code>dword (</code><em>Alias for</em><code> dd)</code>
  70 <br><dt><code>elif</code><dd>Used in conjunction with if
  71
  72      <br><dt><code>else</code><dd>Used in conjunction with if, ifdef or ifndef
  73
  74      <br><dt><code>endif</code><dd>Ends a statement block preceded by an if
  75
  76      <br><dt><code>end</code><dd>Ends the assembly unit
  77
  78      <br><dt><code>ende</code><dd>Ends an enum definition
  79
  80      <br><dt><code>endm</code><dd>Ends a macro definition
  81
  82      <br><dt><code>endp</code><dd>Ends a procedure definition
  83
  84      <br><dt><code>ends</code><dd>Ends a structure or union definition
  85
  86      <br><dt><code>enum </code><var>identifier</var><dd>Begins an enum definition
  87
  88      <br><dt><code>extrn </code><var>identifier</var> <em>[, </em><var>identifier</var><em>, ...]</em><code> : </code><var>type</var><dd>Flag identifier(s) as external (imported) of type <var>type</var>
  89
  90      <br><dt><var>identifier</var><code> equ </code><var>expression</var><dd>Define equate
  91
  92      <br><dt><code>if </code><var>expression</var><dd>Assemble the following statement block only if <var>expression</var> evaluates to non-zero
  93
  94      <br><dt><code>ifdef </code><var>identifier</var><dd>Assemble the following statement block only if <var>identifier</var> is defined
  95
  96      <br><dt><code>ifndef </code><var>identifier</var><dd>Assemble the following statement block only if <var>identifier</var> is not defined
  97
  98      <br><dt><code>incbin "</code><var>filename</var><code>"</code><dd>Include contents of <var>filename</var> as binary data
  99
 100      <br><dt><code>include (</code><em>Alias for</em><code> incsrc)</code>
 101 <br><dt><code>incsrc "</code><var>filename</var><code>"</code><dd>Include contents of <var>filename</var> as assembler statements
 102
 103      <br><dt><code>label </code><var>identifier</var> <em>[= </em><var>address</var><em>]</em> <em>[ : </em><var>type</var><em>]</em><dd>Defines a global label
 104
 105      <br><dt><code>macro </code><var>identifier</var> <em>[</em><var>identifier</var><em>, ...]</em><dd>Begins a macro definition
 106
 107      <br><dt><code>message </code><var>expression</var><dd>Prints a message to stdout during assembly
 108
 109      <br><dt><code>pad </code><var>expression</var><code>  (</code><em>Alias for</em><code> dsb)</code>
 110 <br><dt><code>proc </code><var>identifier</var><dd>Begins a procedure definition
 111
 112      <br><dt><code>public </code><var>identifier</var> <em>[, </em><var>identifier</var><em>, ...]</em><dd>Flag identifier(s) as public (exported)
 113
 114      <br><dt><code>record </code><var>identifier</var> <var>identifier</var><code>:</code><var>width</var> <em>[, </em><var>identifier</var><em>:</em><var>width</var><em>, ...]</em><dd>Defines a record consisting of bitfields.
 115
 116      <br><dt><code>rept </code><var>count</var><dd>Begins an anonymous macro to be repeated <var>count</var> times
 117
 118      <br><dt><code>struc </code><var>identifier</var><dd>Begins a structure definition
 119
 120      <br><dt><code>type </code><var>identifier</var> <em>[</em><var>expression</var><em>, ...]</em><dd>Define data of user-defined type <var>identifier</var>
 121
 122      <br><dt><code>union </code><var>identifier</var><dd>Begins a union definition
 123
 124      <br><dt><code>while </code><var>expression</var><dd>Begins an anonymous macro to be repeated while <var>expression</var> is true (non-zero)
 125
 126      <br><dt><code>word (</code><em>Alias for</em><code> dw)</code><dd>
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