## ALP Programming Guide and Reference

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### Force Short Relative Address (SHORT Operator)

Description

Constraints

Examples

The SHORT operator forces the assembler to calculate the distance from the start of the next instruction to the target specified by the operand (given by Additive-Expression) to be less than 128 bytes away. This can cause the assembler to generate more efficient control transfer instructions when the target is a forward reference. By default, the assembler assumes that the code-relative target is of NEAR distance when the target is an unqualified forward reference.

SHORT Additive-Expression