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<h2 id="introduction">A Quick Guide to Go's Assembler</h2>

<p>
This document is a quick outline of the unusual form of assembly language used by the <code>gc</code>
suite of Go compilers (<code>6g</code>, <code>8g</code>, etc.).
It is based on the input to the Plan 9 assemblers, which is documented in detail
<a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/asm.html">on the Plan 9 site</a>.
If you plan to write assembly language, you s