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<h1>REPT, ENDR</h1>
<p>Suppose you’re feeling lazy and you want to unroll a time consuming loop. <dfn>REPT</dfn> is here for that purpose. Everything between REPT and ENDR will be repeated a number of times just as if you done a copy/paste operation yourself</p>
<pre>REPT 4
add  a,c
ENDR</pre>
<p>This will assemble <code>add a,c</code> four times.</p>
<p>You can also use REPT to generate tables on the fly:</p>
<pre>; --
; -- Generate a 256 byte sine table with values between 0 and 128
; --
ANGLE   SET     0.0
        REPT    256
        DB      (MUL(64.0,SIN(ANGLE))+64.0)>>16
ANGLE   SET     ANGLE+256.0
        ENDR</pre>
<p>REPT is also very useful in recursive macros and as in macros you can also use the special label operator \@. REPT-blocks can be nested.<p>
<h1>See also:</h1>
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<li><a href="macro.htm#labelsuffix">\@</a>
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<p>Last updated 21 June 1997 by <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Carsten Sorensen</a></p>
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