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Bartłomiej Szałach
Bartłomiej Szałach

Reputation: 2463

Formatting assembly code to break a statement into multiple lines

I work with ASCII bit matrices in assembly x86 which looks like this example:

Sign_plus   db  00000000b
        db  00001000b
        db  00001000b
        db  00111110b
        db  00001000b
        db  00001000b
        db  00000000b
        db  00000000b

However, I'd like to keep db [sth] in new line to make the sign more visible and aesthetic ie. 

Sign_plus   
        db  00000000b
        db  00001000b
        db  00001000b
        db  00111110b
        db  00001000b
        db  00001000b
        db  00000000b
        db  00000000b

But in this format the compiler (MASM/ML) reports an error A2008. Is there any way to continue writing a statement in new line or are we forced to type db/dw/etc. in the same line where label is?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 599

Answers (1)

Bartłomiej Szałach
Bartłomiej Szałach

Reputation: 2463

As Shemhamforasch and Jose Manuel Abarca Rodríguez have just said, adding a colon solves the problem.

Sign_plus:
        db  00000000b
        db  00001000b
        db  00001000b
        db  00111110b
        db  00001000b
        db  00001000b
        db  00000000b
        db  00000000b

Upvotes: 2

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