This chapter describes the machine-independent syntax allowed in a
source file. as syntax is similar to what many other
assemblers use; it is inspired by the BSD 4.2
assembler, except that as does not assemble Vax bit-fields.
| • Preprocessing | Preprocessing | |
| • Whitespace | Whitespace | |
| • Comments | Comments | |
| • Symbol Intro | Symbols | |
| • Statements | Statements | |
| • Constants | Constants |