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In Assembly Language Programming

In assembly language programming, symbolic constants are used to assign meaningful names to fixed values, enhancing code readability and maintainability. They can be defined using directives like EQU, =, and DEFINE. The DUP operator allows for initializing multiple memory locations with a specific value, often used in data definition directives to create arrays of repeated values.

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In Assembly Language Programming

In assembly language programming, symbolic constants are used to assign meaningful names to fixed values, enhancing code readability and maintainability. They can be defined using directives like EQU, =, and DEFINE. The DUP operator allows for initializing multiple memory locations with a specific value, often used in data definition directives to create arrays of repeated values.

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In assembly language programming, a symbolic constant (or symbol definition) is a way to assign a

meaningful name (symbol) to a fixed value. This value could be an integer or a piece of text. The purpose
of using symbolic constants is to make the code more readable, maintainable, and easier to modify.

Symbolic constants are defined using assembler directives such as:

 EQU (Equate)
 = (Assignment in some assemblers)
 DEFINE (in some macro assemblers)

MAX_SIZE EQU 100 ; MAX_SIZE is replaced with 100 by the assembler

COUNT = 50 ; COUNT is assigned the value 50

MSG EQU "HELLO" ; MSG represents the string "HELLO"

The DUP (Duplicate) operator is used in assembly language to initialize multiple memory locations with
a specific value. It is primarily used in data definition directives (such as DB, DW, DD, etc.) to allocate an
array of repeated values.

<Variable_Name> <Directive> <Count> DUP (<Value>)

BUFFER DB 10 DUP(0) ; Creates an array of 10 bytes, all initialized to 0

BUFFER DB 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0

MIXED_DATA DB 3 DUP(10), 5 DUP(20) ; Allocates: 10,10,10,20,20,20,20,20

MAX_LENGTH EQU 256

BUFFER DB MAX_LENGTH DUP(0) ; Defines a buffer of 256 bytes

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