DEFINED symbol
You can use the DEFINED operator to see whether a symbol is defined. Typically, this is used with conditional directives to control whether a portion of a file will be assembled.
The DEFINED operator returns a Boolean result which is true if the symbol is defined at that point in the file, and is false otherwise. Note that this operator only inquires whether the symbol is known to the assembler, not whether it has a known value: imported symbols are considered to be defined even though the assembler does not know their value.
DEFINED cannot detect whether a macro has been defined.
The following shows how DEFINED works in a number of cases.
.IMPORT X Y EQU 10 B1 EQU DEFINED X ; true (1) B2 EQU DEFINED Y ; true (1) B3 EQU DEFINED Z ; false (0) — not defined yet B4 EQU DEFINED U ; false (0) — never defined Z EQU 100