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Assembler Directives
Linear Assembly ASM Statement within C C Callable Assembly Function

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ASSEMBLER DIRECTIVES

Message for the assembler, not an instruction Resolved during the assembling process. Does not produce executable code. Directives .text and .data indicate a section for
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text and data, respectively.

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Other commonly used assembler directives are: 1) .short: to initialize a 16-bit integer. 2) .int: to initialize a 32-bit integer. 3) .float: to initialize a 32-bit IEEE singleprecision constant. 4) .double: to initialize a 64-bit IEEE doubleC oll eg e of E ng g: C he rth al a

precision constant.
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LINEAR ASSEMBLY

Assembly like language written without parallel instructions, functional units etc.
Linear assembly code is a cross between assembly and C. Uses syntax same as assembly code, like ADD, SUB & MPY with operands same as in C.
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Uses assembler optimizer with linear assembly source program.

Assembler optimizer

assigns the functional unit and register to use . finds instructions that can execute in parallel . performs software pipelining.

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Optimizer produces assembly coded program. Assembly-coded program by the assembler optimizer is more efficient than from the C compiler optimizer. Linear assembly code should include the .cproc and .endproc directives.

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Delimit a section of code that we want the assembly optimizer to optimize

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ASM STATEMENT WITHIN C

Assembly instructions can be incorporated within a C program using the asm statement The syntax is asm (assembly code); assembly code part has the same format as a valid assembly statement.
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The compiler does not check it for syntax error but copies directly into the compiled output file. If the assembly statement has a syntax error, the assembler would detect it. The asm statement can provide access to hardware features.
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C-CALLABLE ASSEMBLY FUNCTION

Commonly C program includes some critical DSP functions written in assembly language. Improves the performance. Writing a C callable assembly function become common.
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A C-program calling an assembly function is illustrated as follows.

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Programming example.
Sum of n + (n - 1) + (n - 2) + . . . + 1, Using C Calling an Assembly Function.
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Sumfunc.asm Assembly function to find n + (n-1) + ... + 1
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The C source program sum.c calls the assemblycoded function sumfunc.asm.

The value of n set in the main C program is passed through register A4.

The value n in register A4 is moved to register A1.

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A1 is set as a loop counter. The branch statement is conditional based on register A1. Loop section of code starts with the label or address and ends with the branch statement B.

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The resulting sum is accumulated in A4, which is passed to result in the C program.
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REFERENCES

Digital Signal Processing and Applications with the C6713 and C6416 DSK By Rulph Chassaing
Texas instruments Application Report SPRA806 - December 2001

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