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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.

3.1 Preprocessing
3.2 Whitespace
3.3 Comments
3.4 Symbols
3.5 Statements
3.6 Constants