Q35880: Align Directive Aligns Off Start of Segment

Article: Q35880
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 5.10   | 5.10
Operating System(s): MS-DOS | OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | | mspl13_masm
Last Modified: 12-JAN-1989

The ALIGN directive adds the necessary bytes to pad the current offset
to be divisible by 16.

In the example below, the offset of the first byte of d1 is 0;
therefore, the offset of the last is 31. Thus, 1 byte of padding is
necessary to "align on a paragraph boundary," i.e., make the current
offset divisible by 16.

The following example demonstrates this information:

e.data
d1   db 'This is to pad the data segment'
align 16

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