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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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<a name="Symbol-Intro"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Statements.html#Statements">Statements</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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