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 - <h4 class="subsubsection">9.28.3.2 Symbols</h4>
 - <p>The character ‘<samp>:</samp>’ is permitted in identifiers.  There are two
 - exceptions to it being treated as any other symbol character: if a symbol
 - begins with ‘<samp>:</samp>’, it means that the symbol is in the global namespace
 - and that the current prefix should not be prepended to that symbol
 - (see <a href="MMIX_002dPseudos.html#MMIX_002dprefix">MMIX-prefix</a>).  The ‘<samp>:</samp>’ is then not considered part of the
 - symbol.  For a symbol in the label position (first on a line), a ‘<samp>:</samp>’
 - at the end of a symbol is silently stripped off.  A label is permitted,
 - but not required, to be followed by a ‘<samp>:</samp>’, as with many other
 - assembly formats.
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 - <p>The character ‘<samp>@</samp>’ in an expression, is a synonym for ‘<samp>.</samp>’, the
 - current location.
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 - <p>In addition to the common forward and backward local symbol formats
 - (see <a href="Symbol-Names.html#Symbol-Names">Symbol Names</a>), they can be specified with upper-case ‘<samp>B</samp>’ and
 - ‘<samp>F</samp>’, as in ‘<samp>8B</samp>’ and ‘<samp>9F</samp>’.  A local label defined for the
 - current position is written with a ‘<samp>H</samp>’ appended to the number:
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 - <pre class="smallexample">3H LDB $0,$1,2
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 - <p>This and traditional local-label formats cannot be mixed: a label must be
 - defined and referred to using the same format.
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 - <p>There’s a minor caveat: just as for the ordinary local symbols, the local
 - symbols are translated into ordinary symbols using control characters are
 - to hide the ordinal number of the symbol.  Unfortunately, these symbols
 - are not translated back in error messages.  Thus you may see confusing
 - error messages when local symbols are used.  Control characters
 - ‘<samp>\003</samp>’ (control-C) and ‘<samp>\004</samp>’ (control-D) are used for the
 - MMIX-specific local-symbol syntax.
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 - <p>The symbol ‘<samp>Main</samp>’ is handled specially; it is always global.
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 - <p>By defining the symbols ‘<samp>__.MMIX.start..text</samp>’ and
 - ‘<samp>__.MMIX.start..data</samp>’, the address of respectively the ‘<samp>.text</samp>’
 - and ‘<samp>.data</samp>’ segments of the final program can be defined, though when
 - linking more than one object file, the code or data in the object file
 - containing the symbol is not guaranteed to be start at that position; just
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