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This file documents the GNU Assembler "as".
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<a name="Symbols"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Expressions.html#Expressions">Expressions</a>,
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<h2 class="chapter">5 Symbols</h2>
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<p><a name="index-symbols-208"></a>Symbols are a central concept: the programmer uses symbols to name
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things, the linker uses symbols to link, and the debugger uses symbols
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to debug.
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<a name="index-debuggers_002c-and-symbol-order-209"></a><em>Warning:</em> <span class="command">as</span> does not place symbols in the object file in
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the same order they were declared.  This may break some debuggers. 
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<li><a accesskey="1" href="Labels.html#Labels">Labels</a>:                       Labels
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<li><a accesskey="2" href="Setting-Symbols.html#Setting-Symbols">Setting Symbols</a>:              Giving Symbols Other Values
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<li><a accesskey="3" href="Symbol-Names.html#Symbol-Names">Symbol Names</a>:                 Symbol Names
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<li><a accesskey="4" href="Dot.html#Dot">Dot</a>:                          The Special Dot Symbol
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<li><a accesskey="5" href="Symbol-Attributes.html#Symbol-Attributes">Symbol Attributes</a>:            Symbol Attributes
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