Assembly Language Definition/Meaning:
A notation for the convenient representation of machine-code
programs in human-readable terms. An assembly language allows the programmer to
use alphabetic operation codes with mnemonic significance, to use symbolic names
of his own choice for machine and memory registers, and to specify addressing
schemes (e.g. indexing, indirection) in a convenient way. It also allows the use
of various number bases (e.g. decimal, hexadecimal) for numerical constants, and
allows the user to attach labels to lines of the program so that (these lines
can be referenced in a symbolic manner from other parts of a program (usually as
the destination of a control transfer or jump).
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