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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
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<html>
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<!-- This file documents the GNU Assembler "as".
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Copyright (C) 1991-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
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under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3
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or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
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with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no
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Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the
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section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
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<title>Using as: Dot</title>
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<meta name="description" content="Using as: Dot">
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<meta name="keywords" content="Using as: Dot">
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<link href="index.html#Top" rel="start" title="Top">
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<link href="AS-Index.html#AS-Index" rel="index" title="AS Index">
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<link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents">
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<link href="Symbols.html#Symbols" rel="up" title="Symbols">
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<link href="Symbol-Attributes.html#Symbol-Attributes" rel="next" title="Symbol Attributes">
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<link href="Symbol-Names.html#Symbol-Names" rel="prev" title="Symbol Names">
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</head>
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<body lang="en" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#800080" alink="#FF0000">
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<a name="Dot"></a>
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<div class="header">
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<p>
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Next: <a href="Symbol-Attributes.html#Symbol-Attributes" accesskey="n" rel="next">Symbol Attributes</a>, Previous: <a href="Symbol-Names.html#Symbol-Names" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Symbol Names</a>, Up: <a href="Symbols.html#Symbols" accesskey="u" rel="up">Symbols</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="AS-Index.html#AS-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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</div>
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<hr>
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<a name="The-Special-Dot-Symbol"></a>
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<h3 class="section">5.4 The Special Dot Symbol</h3>
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<a name="index-dot-_0028symbol_0029"></a>
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<a name="index-_002e-_0028symbol_0029"></a>
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<a name="index-current-address"></a>
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<a name="index-location-counter"></a>
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<p>The special symbol ‘<samp>.</samp>’ refers to the current address that
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<code>as</code> is assembling into. Thus, the expression ‘<samp>melvin:
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.long .</samp>’ defines <code>melvin</code> to contain its own address.
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Assigning a value to <code>.</code> is treated the same as a <code>.org</code>
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directive.
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Thus, the expression ‘<samp>.=.+4</samp>’ is the same as saying
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‘<samp>.space 4</samp>’.
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</p>
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</body>
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</html>
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