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<h3 class="section">4.3 Assembler Internal Sections</h3>
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<p>These sections are meant only for the internal use of <code>as</code>. They
have no meaning at run-time. You do not really need to know about these
sections for most purposes; but they can be mentioned in <code>as</code>
warning messages, so it might be helpful to have an idea of their
meanings to <code>as</code>. These sections are used to permit the
value of every expression in your assembly language program to be a
section-relative address.
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<dt><b>ASSEMBLER-INTERNAL-LOGIC-ERROR!</b></dt>
<dd><p>An internal assembler logic error has been found. This means there is a
bug in the assembler.
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<dt><b>expr section</b></dt>
<dd><p>The assembler stores complex expression internally as combinations of
symbols. When it needs to represent an expression as a symbol, it puts
it in the expr section.
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