ORG and END

By default, warriors are loaded into core with the first instruction as the starting instruction.

The ORG directive allows a different starting address to be specified. The ORG directive should be written on its own line and followed by an address indicating the start address relative to the first address in the warrior.

By convention, the ORG directive is usually placed at the top of the warrior's code.

ORG 1
dat #4, #0
add.ab -1, -1

The above example uses the ORG directive to set the first instruction to the add instruction rather than the dat instruction.

The ORG directive was introduced in the ICWS'94 standard. Previous standards used the END directive instead, which worked in the same way but was placed at the end of the warrior.

dat #4, #0
add.ab -1, -1
END 1

Note the END and ORG directives are semantically equivalent and either can be used.

Parser Warnings

If both ORG or END directive is specified, the ORG directive will be used to determine the start address.

If multiple ORG or END directives are detected, the last one will be used (with ORG taking precedence over END).

Both these situations will generate a parser warning.