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Statements
A "statement" ends at a newline character (`\n') or line separator
character. (The line separator is usually `;', unless this conflicts
with the comment character; *note Machine Dependencies::.) The newline
or separator character is considered part of the preceding statement.
Newlines and separators within character constants are an exception:
they do not end statements.
It is an error to end any statement with end-of-file: the last
character of any input file should be a newline.
An empty statement is allowed, and may include whitespace. It is
ignored.
A statement begins with zero or more labels, optionally followed by a
key symbol which determines what kind of statement it is. The key
symbol determines the syntax of the rest of the statement. If the
symbol begins with a dot `.' then the statement is an assembler
directive: typically valid for any computer. If the symbol begins with
a letter the statement is an assembly language "instruction": it
assembles into a machine language instruction. Different versions of
`as' for different computers recognize different instructions. In
fact, the same symbol may represent a different instruction in a
different computer's assembly language.
A label is a symbol immediately followed by a colon (`:').
Whitespace before a label or after a colon is permitted, but you may not
have whitespace between a label's symbol and its colon. *Note Labels::.
For HPPA targets, labels need not be immediately followed by a
colon, but the definition of a label must begin in column zero. This
also implies that only one label may be defined on each line.
label: .directive followed by something
another_label: # This is an empty statement.
instruction operand_1, operand_2, ...
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