Introduction.

Workshop PG5
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Symbol names:
Symbol names are names which can be assigned to elements in the PCD (inputs,
outputs, flags, registers, COBs etc). Symbol names can be up to 80 characters
long and are not case sensitive unless they contain foreign characters.
MotorOn is the same as MOTORON, but GRÜN is not the same as grün.
Symbols have to start with a letter ( a-z, A-Z) a number won't be accepted.
Within the symbol you can mix numbers, letters and underlines "_" as you
wish. You cannot have a space in a symbol name.
Reserved Words cannot be used as symbol names.
Reserved Words:
The following words are reserved, and cannot be used as symbol names:
♦ Assembler declarators, e.g. PUBL, EXTN, EQU, DEF, LEQU, LDEF,
MACRO, ENDM, EXITM etc.
♦ Medium control codes and data types (I, O, F, R, C, T, K, M, COB, FB,
TEXT, X, SEMA, DB).
♦ MOV instruction special codes (N, Q, B, W, L, D).
♦ Condition codes (H, L, P, N, Z, E).
♦ All instruction mnemonics.
♦ Pre-defined symbols.
♦ Internal symbols used for automatic resource allocation, which begin with
underscores, e.g.
______TEXT, _________F.
Internal __CSTART__ symbol, used for $$ assignments.
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