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  Syntax:   OPTION DOTNAME
 
            OPTION NODOTNAME
 
  See also: Dot (.)
 
  Description:
 
     The DOTNAME option enables the use of the period (.) as the leading
     character in variable, label, macro, struct, union, and member names.
     NODOTNAME is the default. The DOTNAME option is enabled with the M510
     option, since previous versions of the assembler recognized names
     with period prefixes.
 
     The DOTNAME option does not have any effect on any of the reserved
     words. The use of the period in names is discouraged, as it can be
     confused with the field offset and structure operators.
 
     If you don't want to use this directive in your source code, rename the
     identifiers whose names begin with a period.
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