Signed byte storage directive

    Format

      .SIGNED_BYTE  expression-list

1  –  Parameters

 expression-list

    An expression or list of expressions separated by commas. Each
    expression specifies a value to be stored. The value must be in
    the range of -128 through +127.

2  –  Description

    .SIGNED_BYTE generates successive bytes of binary data in the
    object module and performs signed range checking. Apart from
    the range check, .SIGNED_BYTE is equivalent to .BYTE for storage
    allocation.

3  –  Notes

    o  You can only use this directive within data or mixed psects
       (psects that have either the NOEXE or MIX attributes).

4  –  Example

        .PSECTA,NOEXE
        .SIGNED_BYTE   LABEL1-LABEL2  ;  Data must fit
        .SIGNED_BYTE   -126           ;     in a byte