The total amount of storage required to assemble a DC instruction is the sum of:

1. The requirements for the individual DC operands specified in the instruction. The requirement of a DC operand is the product of:
   • The sum of the lengths (implicit or explicit) of each nominal value
   • The duplication factor, if specified
2. The number of bytes skipped for the boundary alignment between different operands; such skipped bytes are filled with binary zeros.