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RSP Assembly Language
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.end

.end identifier [, expression]
End a procedure. The assembler outputs debugging information for the
debugger, including the beginning and ending locations of procedures.

.ent

.ent identifier [, expression]
Begin a procedure. The assembler outputs debugging information for the
gvd debugger, including the beginning and ending locations of procedures.

.half

.half identifier | iexpression
Two bytes (one half word) of the data section are allocated and initialized to
identifier
the value of the
identifier
The may be a forward-referencing symbol which is not defined
yet. This is useful for building program jump tables which must be filled in
during the second pass of the assembler. In order to accommodate this
useful feature, we accept the restriction that any expression used to initialize
iexpression
this data be an
Since there are only 4K bytes of IMEM and DMEM, 16-bits is sufficient to
hold the address of any symbol.
This directive is only permitted in the data section.

.name

.name identifier, register
The identifier is associated with the
The register may be a scalar, vector, or control register, and must be specified
using proper register syntax.
iexpression
or the .
expression
, not an .
register .
gvd