as: Expressions

 
 6 Expressions
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 An "expression" specifies an address or numeric value.  Whitespace may
 precede and/or follow an expression.
 
    The result of an expression must be an absolute number, or else an
 offset into a particular section.  If an expression is not absolute, and
 there is not enough information when 'as' sees the expression to know
 its section, a second pass over the source program might be necessary to
 interpret the expression--but the second pass is currently not
 implemented.  'as' aborts with an error message in this situation.
 

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