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.rept

Tells the assembler to repeatedly expand a series of statements described between this directive and the .endm directive the number of times equivalent to the value of the expression specified in the operand field.

[Syntax]

Symbol field

Mnemonic field

Operand field

Comment field

[label:]

.rept

absolute-expression

[; comment]

[Function]

-	The .rept directive tells the assembler to repeatedly expand a series of statements described between this directive and the .endm directive (called the REPT-ENDM block) the number of times equivalent to the value of the expression specified in the operand field.

[Use]

-	Use the .rept and .endm directives to describe a series of statements repeatedly in a source program.

[Description]

-	An error occurs if the .rept directive is not paired with the .endm directive.

-	If the .exitm directive appears in the REPT-ENDM block, subsequent expansion of the REPT-ENDM block is terminated at that location.

-	Assembly control instructions may be described in the REPT-ENDM block.

-	If a macro definition is written in the REPT-ENDM block, an error will be output.

-	The value is evaluated as a 32-bit signed integer.

-	If the result of evaluating the expression is negative, the assembler outputs the message then stops assembling.

[Example]

.cseg   text

        ; REPT-ENDM block

.rept   3               ; (1)

nop

        ; Source text

.endm                   ; (2)

(1)	This .rept directive tells the assembler to expand the REPT-ENDM block three consecutive times.

(2)	This directive indicates the end of the REPT-ENDM block.