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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH as86 1 "Oct, 1996" +.TH as86 1 "Jan, 1997" .BY Bruce Evans .nh .SH NAME @@ -124,6 +124,35 @@ take undefined symbols as imported-with-unspecified segment don't print warnings .P .SH AS86 SOURCE +Special characters +.TP +.B * +Address of the start of the current line. +.TP +.B ; ! +Either of these marks the start of a comment. In addition any 'unexpected' +character at the start of a line is assumed to be a comment. +.TP +.B # +Prefix for immediate operands. +.TP +.B $ +Prefix for hexadecimal numbers, the 'C' syntax, eg\ 0x1234, is also accepted. +.TP +.B % +Prefix for binary numbers. +.TP +.B [ ] +Specifies an indirect operand. +.br +Offsets from registers are represented by adding the register to the +expression inside the +.B [ ] +brackets. eg: +.br + MOV AX,[BX+Table] +.br +.P Conditionals .TP .B IF, ELSE, ELSEIF, ENDIF @@ -142,7 +171,8 @@ Set current segment. These can be preceded by the keyword .B .SECT .TP .B LOC -Set numeric segment 0=TEXT, 3=DATA,ROM,BSS, 15=MAX +Set numeric segment 0=TEXT, 3=DATA,ROM,BSS, 15=MAX. Only segment zero is +in the text segment, all others are data. .P Label type definition .TP |