Question

Here is a part of the listing output from the assembly of payroll.asm

1 # Program to print payroll .data 2 NumEmplo: .word 100 CurrDate: .byte 0 # Month .byte 0 # Day # Notice that year is a word # It's too big for a byte .word 0 # Year 3 4 5 0000 6400 6 7 8 0002 00 9 0003 00 10 11 12 0004 0000 13 14 15 0006 00 16 17 18 0007 01 19 20 21 0008 00 22 0009 000000 SpecialRun: .byte o # o=no, 1=ves DeptNum: .byte 1 YearEndSumm: .byte o # o=no, 1=yes

What symbol is at SpecialRun+2?

a) YearEndSumm

b) DeptNum

c) There is no symbol there; the address is between two other addresses.

Answer 1

it is option b)DeptNum following is the explanation please do upvote thank you

.data
NumEmpls:
.word 100
CurrDate: - 0001
.byte 0 -0002
.byte 0 -0003
.word 0 -0004
SpecialRun: -0005 00
.byte 0 -0006 00
DeptNum: -0007 00
.byte 1 -0007 01
YearEndSumm:
.byte 0

so DeptNum is the symbol present at SpecialRun+2