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Next: <a href="HPPA-Floating-Point.html#HPPA-Floating-Point" accesskey="n" rel="next">HPPA Floating Point</a>, Previous: <a href="HPPA-Options.html#HPPA-Options" accesskey="p" rel="prev">HPPA Options</a>, Up: <a href="HPPA_002dDependent.html#HPPA_002dDependent" accesskey="u" rel="up">HPPA-Dependent</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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<a name="Syntax-12"></a>
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<h4 class="subsection">9.13.3 Syntax</h4>
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<p>The assembler syntax closely follows the HPPA instruction set
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reference manual; assembler directives and general syntax closely follow the
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HPPA assembly language reference manual, with a few noteworthy differences.
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<p>First, a colon may immediately follow a label definition. This is
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simply for compatibility with how most assembly language programmers
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write code.
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<p>Some obscure expression parsing problems may affect hand written code which
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uses the <code>spop</code> instructions, or code which makes significant
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use of the <code>!</code> line separator.
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<p><code>as</code> is much less forgiving about missing arguments and other
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similar oversights than the HP assembler. <code>as</code> notifies you
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of missing arguments as syntax errors; this is regarded as a feature, not a
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bug.
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<p>Finally, <code>as</code> allows you to use an external symbol without
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explicitly importing the symbol. <em>Warning:</em> in the future this will be
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an error for HPPA targets.
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<p>‘<samp>!</samp>’ can be used instead of a newline to separate statements.
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