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								This file documents the GNU Assembler "as".
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								Copyright (C) 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002,
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								2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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								Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
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								under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
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								or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
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								with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no
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								Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the
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								section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''.
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								<a name="Manual"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="GNU-Assembler.html#GNU-Assembler">GNU Assembler</a>,
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								<h3 class="section">1.1 Structure of this Manual</h3>
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								<p><a name="index-manual_002c-structure-and-purpose-21"></a>This manual is intended to describe what you need to know to use
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								<span class="sc">gnu</span> <span class="command">as</span>.  We cover the syntax expected in source files, including
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								notation for symbols, constants, and expressions; the directives that
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								<span class="command">as</span> understands; and of course how to invoke <span class="command">as</span>.
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								   <p>This manual also describes some of the machine-dependent features of
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								various flavors of the assembler.
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								   <p><a name="index-machine-instructions-_0028not-covered_0029-22"></a>On the other hand, this manual is <em>not</em> intended as an introduction
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								to programming in assembly language—let alone programming in general! 
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								In a similar vein, we make no attempt to introduce the machine
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								architecture; we do <em>not</em> describe the instruction set, standard
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								mnemonics, registers or addressing modes that are standard to a
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								particular architecture. 
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								You may want to consult the manufacturer's
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								machine architecture manual for this information.
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								<!-- version of this manual, none of these terms seem essential to define. -->
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