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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 .=.+4
is the same as saying
.space 4
.