Motorola HC12 User Manual

User’s Manual

MCUez HC12 Assembler

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Assembler Directives

MOTOROLA

Syntax:

ALIGN

<n>

Description:

This directive forces the next instruction to a boundary that is a
multiple of <n>, relative to the start of the section. The value of
<n> must be a positive number between 1 and 32,767. The

ALIGN

 directive can force alignment to any size. The filling

bytes inserted for alignment purposes are initialized with \0.

ALIGN

 can be used in code or data sections.

Example:

The following example aligns the

HEX

 label to a location,

which is a multiple of 16 (in this case, location 00010 hex).

000000 4849 4748   DC.B  "HIGH"

000004 0000 0000   ALIGN 16

000008 0000 0000

00000C 0000 0000

000010 007F

HEX: DC.W 127

; HEX is allocated on

; an address which is

; a multiple of 16.