Specifications

8-4 Programmer’s Guide Sega
Psy-Q Development System
SECTION
Description This directive declares a logical code section.
Syntax SECTION.size SectionName[,Group]
SectionName SECTION.size [Attribute,..Attribute]
The second format is a special case, designed to allow definition of a section with
group attributes - see below for a description.
See Also GROUP
Remarks
• Unless the section has been previously assigned, the section will be placed in an
unnamed default group, if the GROUP name is omitted
• It is possible to define a section with group attributes. The assembler will
automatically create a group with the section name preceded by a tilde (~) and
place the section in it.
Example Sect1 section bss
defines Sect1, with the BSS attribute, in a group called ~Sect1.
• The size parameter can be .b, .w or .l; if the parameter is omitted, the default size
is word. When a size is specified on a section directive, alignment to that size is
forced at that point. The start of the section is aligned on a boundary based on
the largest size on any of the entries to that section - in all modules in the case of
linked code.
Note: If a section is sized as byte, the EVEN directive is not allowed in the
section. Furthermore, the CNOP directive cannot be used to re-align the
Program Counter to a value greater than the alignment of the host section
- see chapter 5.