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GNU Info (as.info)HPPA SyntaxSyntax ------ The assembler syntax closely follows the HPPA instruction set reference manual; assembler directives and general syntax closely follow the HPPA assembly language reference manual, with a few noteworthy differences. First, a colon may immediately follow a label definition. This is simply for compatibility with how most assembly language programmers write code. Some obscure expression parsing problems may affect hand written code which uses the `spop' instructions, or code which makes significant use of the `!' line separator. `as' is much less forgiving about missing arguments and other similar oversights than the HP assembler. `as' notifies you of missing arguments as syntax errors; this is regarded as a feature, not a bug. Finally, `as' allows you to use an external symbol without explicitly importing the symbol. _Warning:_ in the future this will be an error for HPPA targets. Special characters for HPPA targets include: `;' is the line comment character. `!' can be used instead of a newline to separate statements. Since `$' has no special meaning, you may use it in symbol names. automatically generated by info2www version 1.2.2.9 |