Operator`s manual

There are
two ways to hawe
the Assembler interpret
€ntries
as comm€nts. One
way
is ro mal.e
lhe entries in
lhe commeni field.;hich
occupies
rhe remainder
of the line afier
the insrru.lion
fieldtsl. Ar leasr
one sDace musr
seDaraLe rh€
instruflion fields
from rhe commenl
field. There may
iror be enougL
space in
the comment
field for the comment you
wish
to
write
th€re. rn
th;t c;se it is
best to use
one or more lines
as comment lines
dedicated onlv to makinq
com-
ments
and conraining
no code. To
do so.
you
.nt.r
one spaci ara a semicoton
followed
by any comment
or explanarory
markings you
de6ire.
jtveryrhing
berween
rhe iniriai semicolon
andlhe
m@iffl
is ignored by
rhe a,sembter. bui
wrx De prrn(eo
rn rhe Islrng
ot lhe
pmgram.
A sample programming
form lor
assembly language
ir rcproduced
as figule 4.
The form
shows examples
of
how
to enrer line
number. Iibel. op
code. operand
and comments.
These classes
of entry ar€ lined
up vertically
on the
program-
ming form.
Most vadation
occurs in the method
of ent€rinE
a comment.
Therefore.
Figure
4 includes examples
ofthe rarious ways
ro enier commenrs.
s.mple,
Reproducible
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of
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ta wfite Line
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Op Code,Operani!,
and Ldbel
on the
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