Assembler Directives

Introduction - Directives are instructions for the assembler to follow. They occupy the second field in the source line which is the same position occupied by instruction opcodes however directives are not 68000 opcodes. "DC" and "DCB" are the only directives that result in data being added to the output file. Directives may also be used to control the assembly of macros, conditional assembly and structured syntax.

In the following descriptions optional items are shown in brackets [].
Items shown in italics should be replaced by the appropriate syntax.

Usage:
[label] directive[.size] [data,data,...]
   ^                 ^         ^
    \_________________\_________\_____ varies by directive