HIGH operator

The HIGH operator is HIGH.

Syntax

  High Byte: HIGH(<operand>)

Description

This operator returns the high byte of the address of a memory location.

Example

Assume data1 is a word located at address $1050 in the memory.

  LDA #HIGH(data1)

This instruction will load the immediate value of the high byte of the address of data1 ( $10) in register A.

  LDA HIGH(data1)

This instruction will load the direct value at memory location of the higher byte of the address of data1 (i.e., the value in memory location $10) in register A.