.SPNUM Pseudo-Operation

The .SPNUM pseudo-operation reserves a word of storage and initializes it with the space number of the space named by the operand. Only one operand is allowed and any label present is offset at the first byte of the storage just initialized.

Syntax

.SPNUM name

Parameters

name

Specifies the name of a space whose space number is used to initialize a word of storage.

	NOTE: Space numbers are ignored by the linker.

Example

In this example, the space number of $PRIVATE$, 1, is stored as the address of the symbol LOG by the .SPNUM pseudo-operation.

.SPACE $PRIVATE$,SPNUM=1 SORT=16 .SUBSPA $DATA$,QUAD=1, ALIGN=8,ACCESS=0x1f SORT=24 data_ref .WORD 0xFFFF LOG .SPNUM $PRIVATE$