A251 User's Guide

DS Assembler Statement

Arguments	〚label:〛 DS expression
Description	The DS statement reserves the specified number of bytes in the current memory space. label is a symbol that is assigned the current memory address. expression is the number of bytes to reserve. This statement reserves space and increments the location counter by the number of bytes reserved. Note The A251 Assembler is a two-pass assembler. Symbols are defined and the length of each instruction is determined in the first pass. In the second pass, forward references are resolved and object code is produced. The expression used with the DS statement may not include forward references.
See Also	ALIGN, DBIT, DSB, DSD, DSW, EVEN
Example	GAP: DS (($ + 15) AND 0FFF0h) - $ ; 16-byte alignment DS 10 TIME: DS 8