David Noon wrote in a message to Michael Gleason:

DN>           DW    02FDH

 DN> On thinking about it, the third line of the assembler source
 DN> [quoted above] might be better coded as:

 DN>      DB   02H,0FDH

 DN> since you don't want to force word alignment in the middle
 DN> of the instruction sequence. I must have gotten lucky when
 DN> testing it in the previous style.

A DW directive does not cause word alignment unless an explicit ALIGN
directive is used immediately before it.  However, you have an endian bug
here, since the image equivalent of "DB 02h,0FDh" is correctly
"DW 0FD02h".
 
-- Mike


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