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71<h4 class="subsection">3.10.1 Constants</h4>
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74<p>All constants are integers.
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76<p>As in C, the linker considers an integer beginning with &lsquo;<samp>0</samp>&rsquo; to be
77octal, and an integer beginning with &lsquo;<samp>0x</samp>&rsquo; or &lsquo;<samp>0X</samp>&rsquo; to be
78hexadecimal.  Alternatively the linker accepts suffixes of &lsquo;<samp>h</samp>&rsquo; or
79&lsquo;<samp>H</samp>&rsquo; for hexadecimal, &lsquo;<samp>o</samp>&rsquo; or &lsquo;<samp>O</samp>&rsquo; for octal, &lsquo;<samp>b</samp>&rsquo; or
80&lsquo;<samp>B</samp>&rsquo; for binary and &lsquo;<samp>d</samp>&rsquo; or &lsquo;<samp>D</samp>&rsquo; for decimal.  Any integer
81value without a prefix or a suffix is considered to be decimal.
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88<p>In addition, you can use the suffixes <code>K</code> and <code>M</code> to scale a
89constant by
90<code>1024</code> or <code>1024*1024</code>
91respectively.  For example, the following
92all refer to the same quantity:
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95<pre class="smallexample">_fourk_1 = 4K;
96_fourk_2 = 4096;
97_fourk_3 = 0x1000;
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