Question

The purpose of the ORIGIN directive is __________

(a) To indicate the starting position in memory, where the program block is to be stored

(b) To indicate the starting of the computation code

(c) To indicate the purpose of the code

(d) To list the locations of all the registers used

I had been asked this question by my college professor while I was bunking the class.

Enquiry is from Assembly Language topic in division Machine Instructions and Programs of Computer Architecture

Answer 1

Right choice is (a) To indicate the starting position in memory, where the program block is to be stored

For explanation I would say: This does the function similar to the main statement.