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diff --git a/gas/doc/as.texinfo b/gas/doc/as.texinfo index c2f2f86..fa3221e 100644 --- a/gas/doc/as.texinfo +++ b/gas/doc/as.texinfo @@ -2740,10 +2740,15 @@ On most machines, you can also use @code{$} in symbol names; exceptions are noted in @ref{Machine Dependencies}. @end ifset No symbol may begin with a digit. Case is significant. -There is no length limit: all characters are significant. Multibyte characters +There is no length limit; all characters are significant. Multibyte characters are supported. Symbols are delimited by characters not in that set, or by the beginning of a file (since the source program must end with a newline, the end of a file is not a possible symbol delimiter). @xref{Symbols}. + +Symbol names may also be enclosed in double quote @code{"} characters. In such +cases any characters are allowed, except for the NUL character. If a double +quote character is to be included in the symbol name it must be preceeded by a +backslash @code{\} character. @cindex length of symbols @node Statements |