Art of Assembly Language, 1st Edition

5.5. 5.5 Local Variables

HLA procedures, like procedures and functions in most high level languages, let you declare local variables. Local variables are generally accessible only within the procedure, they are not accessible by the code that calls the procedure. Local variable declarations are identical to variable declarations in your main program except, of course, you declare the variables in the procedure's declaration section rather than the main program's declaration section. Actually, you may declare anything in the procedure's declaration section that is legal in the main program's declaration section, including constants, types, and even other procedures.^[90] In this section, however, we'll concentrate on local variables.

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