Motorola HC12 User Manual

Assembler Directives

FAIL — Generate Error Message

MCUez HC12 Assembler

User’s Manual

MOTOROLA

Assembler Directives

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Syntax:

FAIL

 <arg> | <string>

Description:

FAIL

directive operation depends on the operand specified. If

<arg> is in the range [500–$FFFFFFFF], the assembler
generates a warning message, including the line number and
argument of the directive.

Example:

The following code segment:

cpChar: MACRO

          IFC "\1", ""

            FAIL 200

            MEXIT

          ELSE

            LDD \1

          ENDIF

          IFC "\2", ""

            FAIL 600

          ELSE

            STD \2

          ENDIF

        ENDM

codeSec: SECTION

Start:

        cpChar char1

Generates this error message:

>> in "Y:\DEMO\HC12A\cbe.asm", line 14, col 19, pos 242

          IFC "\2", ""

            FAIL 600

                   ^

WARNING A2332: FAIL found

If <arg> is in the range [0–499], the assembler generates an
error message, including the line number and argument of the
directive. The assembler does not generate an object file.