The GNU assembler in Andy's cross compilation tool set is a little
different from DEC's MACRO32 assembler.  This file summarises the
differences.


1. #, ^ and @ become $, ` and *

   In VAX MACRO you might write:

      movl #0, 8(r5)
      movl #0, @8(r5)
      movl #0, L^8(r5)

   In gas, these are written:

      movl $0, r0
      movl $0, *8(r5)
      movl $0, L`8(r5)

2. ^X becomes 0x

   Hex constants are prefixed with 0x, rather than ^x
   Similarly, a leading zero not followed by an x implies octal.
   Therefore the following instructions are equivalent:

   VAX MACRO:

      movl #64, r0
      movl #^x40, r0
      movl #^o100, r0

   gas:

      movl $64, r0
      movl $0x40, r0
      movl $0100, r0