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The Special Dot Symbol

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