as: Line
7.53 '.line LINE-NUMBER'
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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.
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.
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