Texas Instruments TMS320C3 Series, User Manual, Page: 109 / 166

Assemble Into Named Section
.sect
6-27 Assembler Directives
Syntax .sect “
section name”
Description The .sect directive begins assembling source code into the named section.
The .sect directive defines named sections that are used like default .text and
.data sections.
The section name identifies the section. The section name is significant to 80
characters and must be enclosed in double quotes.
Example Here’s an example of the .sect directive.
.start ”Mysect_1”,0x809800 ; Create two output sections
.start ”Mysect_2”,0x809880 ; at different addresses
.sect ”Mysect_1” ; Begin assembling into Mysect_1
.word $,1,1,1 ; $ gives present address
.sect ”Mysect_2” ; Begin assembling into Mysect_2
.word $,2,2,2 ;
.sect ”Mysect_1” ; Go back to assembling into Mysect_1
.word $,1,1,1 ;