1 1 7.1 '.abort' 1 ============ 1 1 This directive stops the assembly immediately. It is for compatibility 1 with other assemblers. The original idea was that the assembly language 1 source would be piped into the assembler. If the sender of the source 1 quit, it could use this directive tells 'as' to quit also. One day 1 '.abort' will not be supported. 1