Re: Question about jumps

Markus Pitha wrote:

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I see. I thought it's the same in assembly.

:)

So the last character of the
$-equ string tells assembler the end of the string, is that right?

Not exactly. The "equ" just defines an assemble-time constant.

ANSWER equ 42

The "$" is the current location counter. "$ - somelabel" gives the distance between "somelabel" and wherever the "$" occurs. If we expect it to be the length of the string, it has to be right after the last character of the string.

Best,
Frank
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