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+@c 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
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This file documents the GNU Assembler "@value{AS}".
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This sets the type of symbol @var{name} to be either a
function symbol or an object symbol. There are five different syntaxes
supported for the @var{type description} field, in order to provide
-compatibility with various other assemblers.
+compatibility with various other assemblers.
Because some of the characters used in these syntaxes (such as @samp{@@} and
@samp{#}) are comment characters for some architectures, some of the syntaxes