EQU Directive (Assign Text to a Symbolic Constant)

The EQU directive assigns the contents of a text literal to Name.

Syntax

Name EQU Text-Literal

Remarks

The value of the Text-Literal is assigned to the Name entry. In normal contexts, subsequent references to Name will cause the preprocessor to replace Name with the value specified by the Text-Literal entry. This is a simple text substitution operation.

The Name entry is a globally-scoped Identifier that is converted to a Text-EquateName. The Name cannot have been previously defined as a different Identifier-Type. However, the Name entry can be redefined as many times as desired with different values for the Text-Literal entry.

See also EQU and =.

Example

A    EQU   <BP +>  ;explicit text literal, A is a text equate
A    EQU   <3>     ;redefinition of A with different value

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