Panasonic MN1030 User Manual

Chapter 11 Writing Macro Control Statements

Macro Operators 211

11.4 Macro Operators

Macro operators are used in macro bodies to operate on parameters of macro calls. Macro operators

are listed below.

Usage example

The following example uses the operators \, <>, and &. The & characters in the body of macro mac1

are used with two different meanings. The & before the dummy parameters is a macro operator. The &

before the hexadecimal 0x0f indicates a logical AND.

Operator

Description

Concatenates strings.

Macro definition dummy parameters

Macro call

Macro expansion

p1&p2&p3

→

abc, def,ghi

→

abcdefghi

p1&p2&p3

→

data, 1, 3

→

data13

Escape characters for including normally unusable characters (<, >, &, \) in parameters of
macro calls.

Macro definition dummy parameters

Macro call

Macro expansion

p1&p2&\>\>&p3\&0x0f

→

var. 3. 2

→

var3>>2&0x0f

< >

Passes the enclosed string as a single parameter of a macro call.

Macro parameters

Macro call

Macro expansion

→

<“abc”, 1>

→

“abc”, 1

mac1

macro

p1, p2, p3

mov

p1&p2\>\>&p3\&0x0f, D0

endm

mac2

macro

p1, p2

endm

_TEXT

section

CODE, PUBLIC, 1

mac1

1,2,3

mac2

end