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`.line LINE-NUMBER'
Change the logical line number. LINE-NUMBER must be an absolute
expression. The next line has that logical line number. Therefore any
other statements on the current line (after a statement separator
character) are reported as on logical line number LINE-NUMBER - 1. One
day `as' will no longer support this directive: it is recognized only
for compatibility with existing assembler programs.
_Warning:_ In the AMD29K configuration of as, this command is not
available; use the synonym `.ln' in that context.
Even though this is a directive associated with the `a.out' or
`b.out' object-code formats, `as' still recognizes it when producing
COFF output, and treats `.line' as though it were the COFF `.ln' _if_
it is found outside a `.def'/`.endef' pair.
Inside a `.def', `.line' is, instead, one of the directives used by
compilers to generate auxiliary symbol information for debugging.
Created Wed Sep 1 16:41:02 2004 on bee with info_to_html version 0.9.6.