Assembly components

1. Opcode mnemonic
2. Extended mnemonic
3. Data directive
4. Assembly directive

1. Opcode mnemonic
mnemonic is symbolic name for a single executable machine language instruction (op code)

operands = {
pseudo-ops
- begin with dot,

Assembly directive
- pseudo-ops can make assembly of the program dependent on parameters input by a programmer (pseudo-ops = command line arguments on C)
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