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<h3 class="section">7.70 <code>.line </code><var>line-number</var></h3>
<p><a name="index-_0040code_007bline_007d-directive-376"></a><a name="index-logical-line-number-377"></a>Change the logical line number. <var>line-number</var> must be an absolute
expression. The next line has that logical line number. Therefore any other
statements on the current line (after a statement separator character) are
reported as on logical line number <var>line-number</var> − 1. One day
<span class="command">as</span> will no longer support this directive: it is recognized only
for compatibility with existing assembler programs.
<p>Even though this is a directive associated with the <code>a.out</code> or
<code>b.out</code> object-code formats, <span class="command">as</span> still recognizes it
when producing COFF output, and treats <span class="samp">.line</span> as though it
were the COFF <span class="samp">.ln</span> <em>if</em> it is found outside a
<code>.def</code>/<code>.endef</code> pair.
<p>Inside a <code>.def</code>, <span class="samp">.line</span> is, instead, one of the directives
used by compilers to generate auxiliary symbol information for
debugging.
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