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Asked: 2026-06-15T08:07:58+00:00

I think both do about the same: Variable declaration and initialization. Can you please

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I think both do about the same: Variable declaration and initialization. Can you please elaborate?

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    .word allocates space and initializes the data. .equ defines a constant, but doesn’t allocate any space for it.

    So, for example, you might say:

    one .equ 1  ; defines a constant called "one"
counter: .word one ; allocates space and initializes it with the value 1

    The difference being that the .equ directive doesn’t allocate any space in the compiled image.

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