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Reserved Words

    The list of words in this table are words that have special meaning to
    the assembler.  You cannot use them for any purpose other than that
    defined by the assembler.

    .186       .286        .286C         .286P        .287         .386
    .386C      .386P       .387          .8086        .8087        ALIGN
    .ALPHA     AND         ASSUME        AT           BYTE         CATSTR
    .CODE      COMMENT     COMMON        .CONST       .CREF        .DATA
    .DATA?     DB          DD            DOSSEG       DQ           DT
    DUP        DW          DWORD         ELSE         ELSEIF       ELSEIF1
    ELSEIF2    ELSEIFB     ELSEIFDEF     ELSEIFDIF    ELSEIFDIFI   ELSEIFE
    ELSEIFIDN  ELSEIFIDNI  ELSEIFNB      ELSEIFNDEF   END          ENDIF
    ENDM       ENDP        ENDS          EQ           EQU          .ERR
    .ERR1      .ERR2       .ERRB         .ERRDEF      .ERRDIF      .ERRDIFI
    .ERRE      .ERRIDN     .ERRIDNI      .ERRNB       .ERRNDEF     .ERRNZ
    EVEN       EXITM       EXTRN         FAR          .FARDATA     .FARDATA?
    FWORD      GE          GROUP         GT           HIGH         IF
    IF1        IF2         IFB           IFDEF        IFDIF        IFDIFI
    IFE        IFIDN       IFIDNI        IFNB         IFNDEF       INCLUDE
    INCLUDELIB INSTR       IRP           IRPC         LABEL        .LALL
    LE         LENGTH      .LFCOND       .LIST        LOCAL        LOW
    LT         MACRO       MASK          MEMORY       MOD          .MODEL
    NAME       NE          NEAR          NOT          OFFSET       OR
    ORG        %OUT        PAGE          PAGE         PARA         PROC
    PTR        PUBLIC      PUBLIC        PURGE        QWORD        .RADIX
    RECORD     REPT        .SALL         SEG          SEGMENT      .SEQ
    .SFCOND    SHL         SHORT         SHR          SIZE         SIZESTR
    .STACK     STACK       STRUC         SUBSTR       SUBTTL       TBYTE
    .TFCOND    THIS        TITLE         .TYPE        WIDTH        WORD
    .XALL      .XCREF      .XLIST        XOR


    In addition to the above words, TASM also reserves these:

    ARG        %BIN        CODESEG       %CONDS       CONST        %CREF
    %CREFALL   %CREFREF    %CREFUREF     %CTLS        DATAPTR      DATASEG
    %DEPTH     DISPLAY     DP            EMUL         ERRIF        ERRIF1
    ERRIF2     ERRIFB      ERRIFDEF      ERRIFDIF     ERRIFDIFI    ERRIFE
    ERRIFIDN   ERRIFIDNI   ERRIFNB       ERRIFNDEF    EVENDATA     FARDATA
    FARDATA?   GLOBAL      IDEAL         %INCL        JUMPS        LARGE
    %LINUM     %LIST       LOCALS        %MACS        MASM         MASM51
    MODEL      MULTERRS    %NEWPAGE      %NOCONDS     %NOCREF      %NOCTLS
    NOEMUL     %NOINCL     NOJUMPS       %NOLIST      NOLOCALS     %NOMACS
    NOMASM51   NOMULTERRS  %NOSYMS       %NOTRUNC     NOWARN       P186
    P286       P286N       P286P         P287         P386         P386N
    P386P      P387        P8086         P8087        %PAGESIZE    %PCNT
    PNO87      %POPLCTL    %PUSHLCTL     PWORD        QUIRKS       RADIX
    SMALL      %SUBTTL     %SYMS         SYMTYPE      %TABSIZE     %TEXT
    %TITLE     %TRUNC      UDATASEG      UFARDATA     UNION        UNKNOWN
    WARN

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       Notes:         This list does not include the mnemonics for the
                      instruction set.

                      These words are not case sensitive, which means that
                      both PURGE and purge are reserved.