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Each instruction in an assembly program has the following fields :

(i) Lable field
(ii) Operand field
(iii) Comment field
(iv) Mnemonic field

Please write the proper sequence of fields :

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The correct answer is

(i), (iv), (ii) & (iii)

 An assembly statement reads left to right as label, mnemonic, operand, comment — (i), (iv), (ii), (iii), option 2.

LOOP:  MVI  A, 05H  ; load 5 into A

FieldIn the examplePurposeOptional?
(i) LabelLOOP:Names the address, for jumps and callsYes
(iv) MnemonicMVIThe operation — assembles to the opcodeNo
(ii) OperandA, 05HWhat the operation acts onDepends
(iii) Comment; load 5 into AExplanation for the readerYes

The order is not arbitrary; each field's position follows from its job. The label must come first because it marks the address at which the instruction begins — it is a name for the location, so it stands before anything the assembler emits. The mnemonic must precede its operands because the operation determines how many operands are expected and how they are interpreted: MVI takes a register and a byte, INR takes a register alone, NOP takes none. And the comment must come last because the delimiter that introduces it — a semicolon in Intel syntax — tells the assembler to ignore the rest of the line. Put a comment anywhere else and everything after it vanishes.

Only the mnemonic is compulsory, which is worth remembering because it explains why options beginning with a comment are wrong in principle as well as in practice: a line consisting of a comment alone is legal, but it is not an instruction, and the question asks about the fields of an instruction.

How the assembler uses the labels is the reason two passes are needed: a forward jump refers to a label defined later in the file, so the first pass builds a symbol table of label addresses and the second pass generates the machine code with those addresses filled in.

The value of labels is that they survive editing. Writing JMP LOOP instead of JMP 2050H means that inserting an instruction earlier in the program does not silently break the jump — the assembler recomputes the address.

Hence, the proper sequence is (i), (iv), (ii) & (iii).

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