Using as: Syntax

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3 Syntax

This chapter describes the machine-independent syntax allowed in a source file. as syntax is similar to what many other assemblers use; it is inspired by the BSD 4.2 assembler, except that as does not assemble Vax bit-fields.

• Preprocessing:    Preprocessing
• Whitespace:    Whitespace
• Comments:    Comments
• Symbol Intro:    Symbols
• Statements:    Statements
• Constants:    Constants