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zasm - Z80 Assembler – Version 4.4

Pseudo instructions

.globl

    .globl 

For the sake of sdcc:
Declare the named Pseudo instructions: Label definition
Numeric expressions: Labels
8080 Assembler: Labels
label to be global.

The Pseudo instructions: Label definition
Numeric expressions: Labels
8080 Assembler: Labels
label is either defined in the current Assembler directives: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Pseudo instructions: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Including C Source Files: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
local scope after this declaration or it is referenced there.

Undefined global labels can be picked up later by the '#include: #include library
#include: #include library
#include library' assembler directive.

Define a global label
Assembler directives: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Pseudo instructions: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Including C Source Files: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
#local .globl foo ... foo: nop ... Assembler directives: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Pseudo instructions: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Including C Source Files: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
#endlocal

The same effect can be achieved by putting two colons after the label definition:

Assembler directives: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Pseudo instructions: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Including C Source Files: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
#local ... foo:: nop ... Assembler directives: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Pseudo instructions: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Including C Source Files: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
#endlocal
Refer to a global label
Assembler directives: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Pseudo instructions: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Including C Source Files: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
#local .globl foo ... jp foo ... Assembler directives: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Pseudo instructions: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Including C Source Files: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
#endlocal

Unless you have a nested Assembler directives: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Pseudo instructions: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Including C Source Files: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
local context, this is identically to:

Assembler directives: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Pseudo instructions: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Including C Source Files: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
#local ... jp foo ... Assembler directives: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Pseudo instructions: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Including C Source Files: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
#endlocal

In almost all cases the .globl declaration is superfluous. zasm automatically adds the Pseudo instructions: Label definition
Numeric expressions: Labels
8080 Assembler: Labels
label to the list of undefined Assembler directives: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Pseudo instructions: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Including C Source Files: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
local Pseudo instructions: Label definition
Numeric expressions: Labels
8080 Assembler: Labels
labels and pushes it at each Assembler directives: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Pseudo instructions: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Including C Source Files: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
#endlocal to the outer context until it finds a context where it is defined – finally the global context where it can be picked up by the '#include: #include library
#include: #include library
#include library' assembler directive Assembler directives: #if, #elif, #else, #endif
Pseudo instructions: if, endif
if it is still undefined then.

Actually all references to symbols in system libraries as included by the c compiler are handled this way, without the need to define them all ahead.

.globl is useful in nested Assembler directives: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Pseudo instructions: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Including C Source Files: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
local contexts where the same name might be defined in an outer but not the global context.

.globl may also be useful Assembler directives: #if, #elif, #else, #endif
Pseudo instructions: if, endif
if you want to redefine a redefinable Pseudo instructions: Label definition
Numeric expressions: Labels
8080 Assembler: Labels
label. Inside a Assembler directives: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Pseudo instructions: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Including C Source Files: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
local context it is impossible to redefine a Pseudo instructions: Label definition
Numeric expressions: Labels
8080 Assembler: Labels
label, because this would define a new Assembler directives: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Pseudo instructions: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Including C Source Files: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
local Pseudo instructions: Label definition
Numeric expressions: Labels
8080 Assembler: Labels
label instead, except Assembler directives: #if, #elif, #else, #endif
Pseudo instructions: if, endif
if you define it .globl.

foo     defl    0
        ...
Assembler directives: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Pseudo instructions: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Including C Source Files: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
#local ... .globl foo foo defl 1 ... Assembler directives: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Pseudo instructions: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
Including C Source Files: #local, #endlocal, .local and .endlocal
#endlocal

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