created: 08/05/01; revised 11/09/01
This chapter discusses additional pseudoinstuctions. When you write a program using pseudoinstructions it looks to you as if the computer has a rich set of convenient machine instructions. In fact, these convenient instructions are each implemented by using basic instructions. The extended assembler replaces each pseudoinstruction with one or more basic instructions. The basic instructions are then translated into machine code.
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pseudoinstruction.abs
pseudoinstruction.addu
pseudoinstruction.subu
pseudoinstruction.negu
pseudoinstruction.mul
pseudoinstruction.div
pseudoinstruction.divu
pseudoinstruction.remu
pseudoinstruction.rol
rotate left pseudoinstruction.ror
rotate right pseudoinstruction.