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The special dot  symbol, .

The special “.” symbol refers to the current address into which as is assembling.

Thus, the expression, melvin: .long, defines melvin to contain its own address.

Assigning a value to “.” is treated the same as a .org directive. Thus, the expression of ‘.=.+4’ is the same as saying ‘.space 4’.


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