<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Setting Symbols - Using as</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="Using as"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Symbols.html#Symbols" title="Symbols"> <link rel="prev" href="Labels.html#Labels" title="Labels"> <link rel="next" href="Symbol-Names.html#Symbol-Names" title="Symbol Names"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- This file documents the GNU Assembler "as". Copyright (C) 1991-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. --> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Setting-Symbols"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Symbol-Names.html#Symbol-Names">Symbol Names</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Labels.html#Labels">Labels</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Symbols.html#Symbols">Symbols</a> <hr> </div> <h3 class="section">5.2 Giving Symbols Other Values</h3> <p><a name="index-assigning-values-to-symbols-211"></a><a name="index-symbol-values_002c-assigning-212"></a>A symbol can be given an arbitrary value by writing a symbol, followed by an equals sign ‘<samp><span class="samp">=</span></samp>’, followed by an expression (see <a href="Expressions.html#Expressions">Expressions</a>). This is equivalent to using the <code>.set</code> directive. See <a href="Set.html#Set"><code>.set</code></a>. In the same way, using a double equals sign ‘<samp><span class="samp">=</span></samp>’‘<samp><span class="samp">=</span></samp>’ here represents an equivalent of the <code>.eqv</code> directive. See <a href="Eqv.html#Eqv"><code>.eqv</code></a>. <p>Blackfin does not support symbol assignment with ‘<samp><span class="samp">=</span></samp>’. </body></html>