<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Error - Using as</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="Using as"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.7"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Pseudo-Ops.html#Pseudo-Ops" title="Pseudo Ops"> <link rel="prev" href="Err.html#Err" title="Err"> <link rel="next" href="Exitm.html#Exitm" title="Exitm"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- This file documents the GNU Assembler "as". Copyright (C) 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. man end--> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <p> <a name="Error"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Exitm.html#Exitm">Exitm</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Err.html#Err">Err</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Pseudo-Ops.html#Pseudo-Ops">Pseudo Ops</a> <hr><br> </div> <h3 class="section">7.48 <code>.error "</code><var>string</var><code>"</code></h3> <p><a name="index-error-directive-323"></a> Similarly to <code>.err</code>, this directive emits an error, but you can specify a string that will be emitted as the error message. If you don't specify the message, it defaults to <code>".error directive invoked in source file"</code>. See <a href="Errors.html#Errors">Error and Warning Messages</a>. <pre class="smallexample"> .error "This code has not been assembled and tested." </pre> </body></html>