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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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								<a name="Symbol-Intro"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Statements.html#Statements">Statements</a>,
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								Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Comments.html#Comments">Comments</a>,
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								<h3 class="section">3.4 Symbols</h3>
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								<p><a name="index-characters-used-in-symbols-128"></a>A <dfn>symbol</dfn> is one or more characters chosen from the set of all
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								letters (both upper and lower case), digits and the three characters
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								<span class="samp">_.$</span>. 
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								On most machines, you can also use <code>$</code> in symbol names; exceptions
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								are noted in <a href="Machine-Dependencies.html#Machine-Dependencies">Machine Dependencies</a>. 
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								No symbol may begin with a digit.  Case is significant. 
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								There is no length limit: all characters are significant.  Symbols are
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								delimited by characters not in that set, or by the beginning of a file
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								(since the source program must end with a newline, the end of a file is
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								not a possible symbol delimiter).  See <a href="Symbols.html#Symbols">Symbols</a>. 
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