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7.4 Assembly control directives
This section describes the following directives:
MACRO and MEND on page 7-27
MEXIT on page 7-29
IF, ELSE, and ENDIF on page 7-30
WHILE and WEND on page 7-32.
7.4.1 Nesting directives
The following structures can be nested to a total depth of 256:
MACRO
definitions
WHILE...WEND
loops
IF...ELSE...ENDIF
conditional structures
INCLUDE
file inclusions.
The limit applies to all structures taken together, however they are nested. The limit is
not 256 of each type of structure.