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