## ALP Programming Guide and Reference

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### Immediate Expression Type

An Immediate-ExpressionType has all the properties of a Constant- ExpressionType with the following restrictions relaxed:

It may contain references to a GroupName, SegmentName or LabelName (it may be relocatable).
It may reference a relocatable external symbol.

An Immediate-ExpressionType must not be larger than 32 bits in magnitude; its value must be representable using one of the following types of scalar data:

BYTE
SBYTE
WORD
SWORD
DWORD
SDWORD