Equate
The “equate” pseudo instruction is indicated by the character = (equals sign) written in the code field of an assembler statement. No executable object code is generated by the pseudo instruction. It acts merely to provide the assembler with information to be used subsequently while generating object code.
Description:
The symbol Sym is assigned the value Exp by the assembler. Whenever the symbol Sym is encountered subsequently by the assembler, this value will be used.
The statements
CZ = 10
JCN CZ ADDR
are equivalent to the statement
JCN 10 ADDR
The statements
DAT = 5
LDM DAT
will load the value 5 into the accumulator