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								<h4 class="subsection">6.2.1 Arguments</h4>
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								<p><a name="index-expression-arguments-248"></a><a name="index-arguments-in-expressions-249"></a><a name="index-operands-in-expressions-250"></a><a name="index-arithmetic-operands-251"></a><dfn>Arguments</dfn> are symbols, numbers or subexpressions.  In other
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								contexts arguments are sometimes called “arithmetic operands”.  In
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								this manual, to avoid confusing them with the “instruction operands” of
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								the machine language, we use the term “argument” to refer to parts of
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								expressions only, reserving the word “operand” to refer only to machine
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								instruction operands.
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								   <p>Symbols are evaluated to yield {<var>section</var> <var>NNN</var>} where
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								<var>section</var> is one of text, data, bss, absolute,
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								or undefined.  <var>NNN</var> is a signed, 2's complement 32 bit
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								integer.
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								   <p>Numbers are usually integers.
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								   <p>A number can be a flonum or bignum.  In this case, you are warned
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								that only the low order 32 bits are used, and <span class="command">as</span> pretends
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								these 32 bits are an integer.  You may write integer-manipulating
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								instructions that act on exotic constants, compatible with other
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								assemblers.
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								   <p><a name="index-subexpressions-252"></a>Subexpressions are a left parenthesis <span class="samp">(</span> followed by an integer
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								expression, followed by a right parenthesis <span class="samp">)</span>; or a prefix
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								operator followed by an argument.
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