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The MPL macro processor interprets balanced text strings as numeric expressions when they are used arguments to the following MPL functions:
Numeric expressions are processed as follows:
- The text of the expression is expanded in the ordinary manner in which macro function arguments are evaluated.
- The resulting string is evaluated to a numeric value which is converted into a character representation of the expression's value (which is the final value of the expression).
The following operators may be used in numeric expressions:
- Parentheses ()
- HIGH, LOW
- *, /, MOD, SHL, SHR
- EQ, LT, LE, GT, GE, NE
- NOT
- AND, OR, XOR
Arithmetic on MPL numeric expressions is performed using signed 16-bit integers. The result of relational operators is either 0 (FALSE) or 1 (TRUE).
Numeric Constants
Numbers may be specified in hexadecimal (base 16), decimal (base 10), octal (base 8), and binary (base 2) using the suffix and character specified in the following table:
| Base | Suffix | Valid Characters | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary | B,b | 0-1 | 1111B 10011111B 101010101B |
| Octal | O,o,Q,q | 0-7 | 177O 7777o 25O 123o 177777O |
| Decimal | D,d | 0-9 | 1234 65590D 20d 123 |
| Hexadecimal | H,h | 0-9, A-F, a-f | 1234H 99H 123H 0A0F0H 0FFH |
A number with no explicit base is interpreted as a decimal number. The first character of a number must always be a digit (0-9). Hexadecimal numbers that do not have a digit as the first character — that is, if they have A-F in that position — must be prefixed with a 0.
Dollar sign characters ('$') may be used within numbers to make them more readable. However, the dollar sign may not be the first or last character of a number. For example:
| 1111$0000$1010$0011B | is equivalent to 1111000010100011B. | |
| 1$2$3$4 | is equivalent to -1234. |
Hexadecimal numbers may be entered using C language conventions.
| 0xFE02 | is equivalent to 0FE02h. | |
| 0X5566 | is equivalent to 05566h. |
Character Constants
The MPL macro processor supports ASCII character strings which may consist of one or two characters enclosed in single quotes ("'"). For example:
| 'A' | evaluates to 0041H. | |
| 'AB' | evaluates to 4142H. | |
| 'a' | evaluates to 0061H. | |
| 'ab' | evaluates to 6162H. | |
| '' | is a null string which is not valid. | |
| 'abc' | causes an error. The constant contains more than two characters. |
Note
- The macro processor cannot access the assembler's symbol table. Therfore, the values of labels and of SET and EQU symbols are not known during macro processing. However, you may use the SET macro function to define macro symbols.
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