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117 0033 #IFLAB 3
117 0033 A603 ld A, #3 ; 1st arg is constant
117 0035 #ENDIF
117 0035 #IFLAB NbOfApples
117 0035 BB02 add A, NbOfApples
117 0037 #ELSE
117 0037 B704 ld NbOfFruit, A
6.1.8 Some miscellaneous features
Here are a few pseudo-ops or controls that help writing and assembling code.
6.1.8.1 EQU and CEQU pseudo-ops
The EQU pseudo-op has already been mentioned. Both EQU and CEQU work pretty much the
same way; however,
EQU assigns a value to an identifier that cannot be changed later, other-
wise the assembler would produce an error. The pseudo-op
CEQU, on the contrary, allows an
identifier to be set to various values all along the program. This can be useful in writing macros
or in conjunction with conditional statements. The identifier defined has the same properties
as a label and can be used anywhere a label is used. Example:
d2A EQU {d2 + $100}
Be careful with the syntax of expressions. They always must be enclosed in curly braces.
Please refer to the ST7 Software Tools Manual for more details. The identifier on the left of the
EQU statement, being a label, must start on the first character of the line. As a label, it has a
size that is derived from the current default (
BYTES, WORDS or LONGS)orthatcanbespecified
using a modifier like:
d2A.b EQU {d2 + $10}
6.1.8.2 #DEFINE pseudo-op
The #DEFINE pseudo-op gives an identifier a value that is a character string. Examples:
#DEFINE THREE 3
#DEFINE RESULT NumberOfApples
This being a pseudo-op, it must not start on the first character of the line. Apparently, this
seems no different from the
EQU pseudo-op. Actually, it is very different in that the identifier is
not a label. It is more like a macro, that instead of a group of lines is associated with a word (in
the literary sense: a string of characters). So, each time the identifier
THREE of the example
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