##### Syntax

DC.B initialiser [, initialiser]...
DB initialiser [, initialiser]...
FCB initialiser [, initialiser]...
BYTE initialiser [, initialiser]...

##### Description

The DC.B directive defines an object as an initialised array of bytes. If the directive is labeled, the label is assigned the location counter of the current section before the data are placed in that section. If a single initializer is present, the label's data type is set to BYTE, otherwise it is set to be a fixed array of BYTE, the bounds of which are set by the number of elements defined.

##### Example

    Mask DC.B 0x01, 0x03, 0x07, 0x0f, 0x1f, 0x3f, 0x7f, 0xff

This defines the label Mask and allocates eight bytes with the given values. The type of Mask is set to BYTE[8], an array of eight bytes, as eight values are listed.

You can define string data using the DB directive. When the assembler sees a string, it expands the string into a series of bytes and places those into the current section.

##### Example

    BufOvfl DC.B 13, 10, "WARNING: buffer overflow", 0

This emits the bytes 13 and 10 into the current section, followed by the ASCII bytes comprising the string, and finally a trailing zero byte.