Copyright Digital Equipment Corp. All rights reserved. In contrast to unary operators, binary operators specify actions to be performed on two terms or expressions. You can enclose expressions in angle brackets to specify the order of evaluation.
All binary operators have equal priority.
You can group terms or expressions for evaluation by enclosing them in angle brackets. The enclosed terms and expressions are evaluated first, and remaining operations are performed from left to right. If the truncation causes a loss of significance in a data-storage directive, the assembler displays an error message. The following sections describe the arithmetic shift, logical AND, logical inclusive OR, and logical exclusive OR operators.