Epson S5U1C17001C, Manual

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S5U1C17001C ManUal
EPSOn
8-5
(C COMPilEr PaCkagE fOr S1C17 faMily) (Ver. 1.5.0)
8 aSSEMBlEr
8
Assemblr
8.5 assembler Directives
The assembler directives are not converted to execution codes, but they are designed to control the assembler or to
set data. For discrimination from other instructions, all the assembler directives begin with a period (.). Describe the
directives in lowercase unless otherwise specified. Parameters are discriminated between uppercase and lowercase.
The
as
assembler supports all the gnu assembler directives. Refer to the gnu assembler manual for details of the
assembler directives. The following explains the often-utilized directives.
8.5.1 Text Section Defining Directive (
.text
)
instruction format
.text
Description
Declares the start of a
.text
section. Statements following this instruction are assembled as those to be
mapped in the
.text
section, until another section is declared.